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越 — to exceed; to climb over

to exceed; to climb over; to surpass; the more... the more

Pinyin
yuè · Yuè
Strokes
12
HSK level
HSK 3
Handwriting
recognition only

This character has more than one reading — yuè, Yuè — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.

How to write 越: 12 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

越 — 12 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 越 in the HSK syllabus: 8

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 越yuègeneric word for peoples or states of south China or south Asia at different historical periodsHSK 3
  2. 超越chāoyuèto surpass; to exceed; to transcendHSK 6
  3. 穿越chuānyuèto traverse; to pass through; to crossHSK 7–9
  4. 跨越kuàyuèto step across; step overHSK 7–9
  5. 优越yōuyuèsuperior; superiorityHSK 7–9
  6. 越发yuèfāincreasingly; more and more; ever more; all the moreHSK 7–9
  7. 越过yuèguòto cross over; to transcend; to cover distanceHSK 7–9
  8. 卓越zhuóyuèoutstanding; surpassing; distinguished; splendidHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.