逾

Crossing a boundary or threshold:

• Physical displacement: passing beyond a geographic marker, border, or landmark.
• Temporal passage: the elapsing of time; exceeding a specific duration (e.g., 逾年 "more than a year").
• Transgression: overstepping legal, social, or moral limits; breaching propriety (e.g., 逾矩 "overstepping the square/rule").

• Transitive: crossing a specific object or boundary.
• Intransitive: used primarily in temporal contexts.
• Modifier of quantity: functioning as a verb of measurement to indicate an amount that exceeds a certain value.

Compared to similar terms for "passing":

• 過 (guò): the most general term; does not necessarily imply crossing a threshold or boundary.
• 越 (yuè): often implies a more forceful crossing, or surpassing another in rank, ability, or status.
• 逾 (yú): emphasizes the act of breaching a limit.

Semantic variant: Frequently interchangeable with 踰 (U+8E30). While 踰 explicitly utilizes the foot radical (足) to emphasize the physical act of stepping over, early texts often use the two interchangeably regardless of whether the context is physical or abstract.