超chāo
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超
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Shuowen
超. The character combines the movement radical 辶 with the phonetic 召, originally depicting a foot leaping over an obstacle in oracle bone inscriptions; it thus meant “to jump over” and later came to signify “to exceed”.
Pinyin
chāo· HSK 1