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surpass

On-Yomi: エツ、オツ — Kun-Yomi: こ.す、-こ.す、-ご.し、こ.える、-ご.え

Elements:

surpass, run, soil, dirt, ground, mend, parade

Heisig story:

Here we see two parades in competition, each trying to surpass the other by running at high speed from one town to the next. Note the little "hook" at the end of the first stroke of the element for parade. This is the ONLY time it appears like this in the kanji treated in this book.

Koohii stories:

1) [zazen666] 4-9-2007(223): The person in charge of running the parade surpassed all our expectations (by just a extra drop…).

2) [Danieru] 7-1-2008(102): The parade of runners are all trying to SURPASS each other - and they end up running all the way to Vietnam (note that this kanji is also used for the country of Vietnam).

3) [hoolan] 2-3-2009(36): A RUNNER will always SURPASS a PARADE.

4) [romanrozhok] 16-6-2008(32): This kanji is read the same way as # 385 "transcend." The difference is that this kanji talks about surpassing or crossing over a mountain (or the like) while 385 is used when surpassing or transcending a amount of money, an expectation, etc. STORY: Some punk kids dared one of their friends to PASS/SURPASS the PARADE. So the kid got a RUNNING start but slipped on a DROP of something and landed face first in front of the PARADE ruining it.

5) [eri401] 6-3-2010(13): To make the marathon more challenging for the runners, they made them try to out-run (#384 走) a parade going down the same path. The runners must come out before the parade, and SURPASS it, to win a shopping spree at Mitsukoshi or a trip to Vietnam. Oddly, this is a kanji in Mitsukoshi Dept store ( 三越 ) and Vietnam ( 越 ).

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