过户 (guò hù) — to transfer ownership (property, vehicle, etc.)

Definition

过户 (guò hù) means to legally re-register ownership — of a car, house, or other registered property — in someone else's name. Often paired with 手续 ('procedures') as 办理过户手续.

verb
to transfer ownership (property, vehicle, etc.)

Examples

  • 过户？
    Nǐ zhè liàng chē guò hù le ma?
    Have you transferred the ownership of this car?
  • ，。
    Fáng zi gāng guò le yí cì hù, shǒu xù hěn má fan.
    The house just went through one ownership transfer; the paperwork was very troublesome.
  • 过户。
    Míng tiān yào qù chē guǎn suǒ bàn lǐ guò hù shǒu xù.
    Tomorrow I have to go to the DMV to handle the transfer procedures.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
动宾dòngbīnVerb + object

An action followed by what it acts on, fused into one word.

过guòtransfer
户hùhousehold

过户 combines 过, meaning to pass or transfer, with 户, the household or registration, to describe transferring ownership.

Characters in this word

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 過; 过 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
辵辵chuòwalk
Sound part声符shēngfú
咼
咼wāi過guò
Same sound today

The traditional form 過 pairs 辵 (walk) with 咼 as a sound component; the simplified 过 is a shorthand, and its parts are not the historical components.

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A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 戶; 户 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 戶 is a picture of half of a gate. The simplified 户 is a later shorthand, so its shape should not be read as the original parts.

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