EntryCommon
  1. Ichidan verb, Transitive verb

    to overdo; to do too much

    Usually written using kana alone

    車を運転する時はいくら注意してもしすぎることはない。
    You cannot be too careful when you drive a car.

Also written 為過ぎる【しすぎる】

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Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

overdo, exceed, go beyond, error

Kun
す.ぎる、す.ごす、あやま.ち、あやま.つ、よぎ.る、よ.ぎる
On
Strokes
12
Taught
Grade 5
JLPT
N3
Frequency
285 of 2500
Radical
walk
WaniKani
Level 22

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Dictionary and index codes (33)
CodeReference
3-3-9SKIP code
2q9.18The Kanji Dictionary
3730.2Four corner code
3649deroo
904eUnicode hex code
1-18-65JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4723Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
6090New Nelson (John Haig)
3137New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3891Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2003Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2704Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1293Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1389Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
399A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1804Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
368Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
39002PMorohashi
629A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
413Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
419Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
562sakade
963Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
659henshall3
750Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
230crowley
284Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
705Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1302Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
guo4, guo1Pinyin reading
gwaKorean reading
n3JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
22WaniKani level