Chinese symbol for “unduly”

过分

guò fèn

Traditional: 過分

excessive; undue; unduly; overly

The closest CC-CEDICT match for unduly is 过分 (guò fèn), defined as: excessive; undue; unduly; overly.

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Characters and stroke order

过 guò

pass; to go across, to pass through

radical 162 ⾡ · 7 strokes

分 fèn

to divide, to allocate; fraction; small unit of time or other quantity

radical 18 ⼑ · 4 strokes

Traditional forms

過 guò

Related words

Other words that share a character with 过分.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
通过 (通過)	tōng guò	to pass through; to get through; to adopt (a resolution); to pass (legislation)
不过 (不過)	bù guò	only; merely
过去 (過去)	guò qù	(in the) past; former; previous; to go over; to pass by
过程 (過程)	guò chéng	course of events; process
超过 (超過)	chāo guò	to surpass; to exceed
部分	bù fen	part; portion; piece; Taiwan pr. [bu4fen4]
分析	fēn xī	to analyze; analysis
分别 (分別)	fēn bié	to part; to leave each other; to distinguish; to tell apart

See also: Japanese symbol for “unduly”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.