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surpass

On-Yomi: エツ、オツ — Kun-Yomi: こ.す、-こ.す、-ご.し、こ.える、-ご.え

Koohii stories:

1) [zazen666] 4-9-2007(223): The person in charge of running the parade surpassed all our expectations (by just a extra drop…).

2) [Danieru] 7-1-2008(102): The parade of runners are all trying to SURPASS each other - and they end up running all the way to Vietnam (note that this kanji is also used for the country of Vietnam).

3) [hoolan] 2-3-2009(36): A RUNNER will always SURPASS a PARADE.

4) [noname] 16-6-2008(32): This kanji is read the same way as # 385 "transcend." The difference is that this kanji talks about surpassing or crossing over a mountain (or the like) while 385 is used when surpassing or transcending a amount of money, an expectation, etc. STORY: Some punk kids dared one of their friends to PASS/SURPASS the PARADE. So the kid got a RUNNING start but slipped on a DROP of something and landed face first in front of the PARADE ruining it.

5) [eri401] 6-3-2010(13): To make the marathon more challenging for the runners, they made them try to out-run (#384 走) a parade going down the same path. The runners must come out before the parade, and SURPASS it, to win a shopping spree at Mitsukoshi or a trip to Vietnam. Oddly, this is a kanji in Mitsukoshi Dept store ( 三越 ) and Vietnam ( 越 ).

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