Today’s #kanji is 渡, which is listed under its semantic element of #さんずいへん（氵）, which suggests a connection with water. Its phonetic element is 度 although 渡 and 度 don’t quite share a sound.
Meaning: to cross, to pass
Reading: ト、わた
渡航（トコウ）する: to make a voyage, to go overseas
渡世（トセイ）: getting by, a living, a way to make a living
渡来（トライ）する: to come over the sea, to be brought over (from overseas)
過渡期（カトキ）: a transition period
譲渡（ジョウト）する: to transfer, to hand over, to assign
渡（わた）す: to hand ～ to…; to transfer; to pay; to lay ～ over; to carry across
名刺を渡す to give one’s business card
生活費を渡す to give the living allowance
川にロープを渡す to hang a rope across a river
渡（わた）る: to go across…, to move, to get along, to fall into somebody’s hand, to be supplied
道を渡る to cross a road
アメリカに渡る to move to America
渡る世間に鬼はない。There is kindness to be found everywhere.
家が人手に渡る。The house passed into someone else’s hands.
ケーキは全員に渡りましたか。Has everyone got a piece of cake?
渡（わた）し船（ぶね）: a ferryboat, a ferry
渡（わた）り鳥（どり）: a migratory bird
手（て）渡（わた）し: (personal) delivery, delivery by hand
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- さんずいへん
法
深
