過
This character means ‘to pass, go past, exceed’ and ‘error.’ The pronunciation in Japanese is KA or sugiru and in Chinese it is guò. The figure wrapped around the left and bottom sides
辶
shows a succession of footsteps, thus ‘to pass, go past, exceed.’
The remaining element
咼
is said to be there for phonetic reasons. However, it means ‘crooked mouth, evil, dishonest,’ and maybe that’s how the meaning ‘error’ got attached to 過 .
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