渡

Meaning

渡 centers on moving across a boundary or gap: crossing a river, ferrying goods, delivering something to another side, or migrating. The ideas of transit, import, and diameter all extend from this core sense of spanning a divide.

• 渡るわたる
  N5

  to cross over; to go across

• 渡しわたし

  ferry (crossing); ferry(boat)

• 渡すわたす
  N5

  to ferry across (e.g. a river); to carry across; to traverse

• 譲渡じょうと

  transfer; assignment; conveyance

• に渡ってにわたって

  throughout; over a period of ...; over a span of ...

• 引き渡しひきわたし

  delivery; handing over; turning over; extradition

• 渡航とこう

  voyage; passage; travelling

• 受け渡しうけわたし

  delivery; transfer; hand-over

• 手渡すてわたす

  to hand (over); to deliver in person

• 言い渡しいいわたし

  sentence; judgment; judgement; pronouncement; order; command

• 見渡すみわたす
  N2

  to look out over; to survey (scene); to take an extensive view of

• 過渡かと

  crossing; ferry

• 引き渡すひきわたす

  to deliver; to extradite; to stretch across; to hand over

• 渡り鳥わたりどり
  N1

  migratory bird; bird of passage

• 橋渡しはしわたし
  N1

  mediation; good offices; go-between; intermediary; mediator; bridge (between)

• 渡来とらい

  visit (from abroad)

• 綱渡りつなわたり
  N1

  tightrope walking; high-wire act; funambulism

• 行き渡るいきわたる
  N1

  to diffuse; to spread throughout; to prevail; to become widespread; to reach everyone

• 渡りわたり

  crossing; passage; transit

• 不渡りふわたり

  dishonouring (a bill); dishonoring; bouncing (a cheque, check); non-payment

• 言い渡すいいわたす

  to announce; to tell; to sentence; to order

• 刃渡りはわたり

  length of a blade

• 譲り渡すゆずりわたす

  to hand over; to turn over; to cede

• 渡し船わたしぶね

  ferry; ferryboat

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