Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
过 is a shortened form of 過. 辶, a foot moving through a crossing, is the picture part, and 寸 stands for the old sound part 咼 guō; it first meant 'to pass through'. The meaning grew to 'pass time', 'surpass', 'error', and 'undergo'.
Drawn as: foot at intersection; motion
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