Illustration: An adult and their young child sit on the floor of a Japanese apartment looking at an old family photograph. In the photograph, the adult appears as a small child with the same distinctive cowlick, proudly holding a stuffed rabbit beside a familiar veranda post.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

過か去こ

kako

the past

Example sentences

  1. 私わたしはいつまでも過去かこにこだわらないようにと心こころがけている。

    I try not to dwell on the past.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 歴史れきしは過去かこを扱あつかう。

    History deals with the past.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 過去かこのことは忘わすれよう。

    Let bygones be bygones.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 過去

  • 過overdo; exceedOnカKunすぎる・すごす・あやまち
  • 去leave; pastOnキョ・コKunさる

A word like this on every new tab

The Bebop Chrome extension shows one illustrated Japanese word each time you open a new tab in Chrome, with its reading, meaning, kanji and three example sentences. Choose any mix of levels from N5 to beyond N1. It’s free, with no account.

The Bebop new tab showing 音楽, music, over an illustration of a family playing music at home, with three example sentences
Add to Chrome Free on the Chrome Web Store
For Chrome on a computer. See it on the Chrome Web Store