超

simpl. and trad.

超

Translingual

Han character

超 (radical 156 走+5, 12 strokes, cangjie input 土人尸竹口 (GOSHR), four-corner 4780₆)

1. jump over, leap over
2. surpass

• Romanizations
  • Mandarin
    • Pinyin: chāo
    • Wade-Giles: ch'ao¹
    • Yale:
  • Cantonese
    • Jyutping:
    • Penkyamp:
    • Yale: chiu1

References

• KangXi: page 1216, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 37096
• Dae Jaweon: page 1685, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3484, character 7
• Unihan data for U+8D85

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Japanese

Kanji

超 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: ちょう (chō)
• Kun: こえる (koeru), こす (kosu)

Prefix

超 (hiragana ちょう, romaji chō-)

1. extra-; hyper-; mega-; meta-; para-; super-; trans-; ultra-

Compounds

Compounds

超越 (ちょうえつ, chōetsu): transcendence 超人 (ちょうじん, chōjin): superman, extraordinary person, Ultraman 超能力 (ちょうのうりょく, chōnōryoku): psychic power, supernatural power 超新星 (ちょうしんせい, chōshinsei): supernova 超伝導 (ちょうでんどう, chōdendō): superconductivity 超過 (ちょうか, chōka): excess, overrun 超臨界 (ちょうりんかい, chōrinkai): (noun) supercritic 超臨界水 (ちょうりんかいすい, chōrinkaisui): supercritical water 超次元 (ちょうじげん, chōjigen): transdimensional 超時間 (ちょうじかん, chōjikan): transtemporal; hypertime 超自然 (ちょうしぜん, chōshizen): the supernatural 超常 (ちょうじょう, chōjō, (historical hiragana てうぢやう)): the paranormal

Synonyms

• 越, 愈, 多, 夛, 仙

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Korean

Hanja

超
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 초 (revised: cho, McCune-Reischauer: ch'o, Yale: cho)

• Name (hangeul): 뛰어넘을()

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Mandarin

Prefix

超 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin chāo)

1. hyper-

   超文本

   hypertext

2. super-

   超市

   supermarket

   超音速

   supersonic

Verb

超 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin chāo)

1. to surpass

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Vietnamese

Han character

超 (siêu, sêu)