Transit

On’yomi: と
Kun’yomi: わた
Radical: 水 Water (Kangxi 85)

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 与 (Give), less common than 米 (Rice).

A tsunami on the left, yurt in the middle, stool on the right — a tsunami sends a yurt and stool floating in transit across the water, carried from shore to shore.

In words

渡るわたる to go acrossN5

渡すわたす to hand overN5

渡り鳥わたりどり migratory bird;bird of passageN1

渡 is rank 480 of 2,608 in published Japanese.

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