夂

See also 攵, and 夊

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Pictogram (象形) – footprint (pointing down), variant of 夊. Compare 止, which has similar form in oracle script, but has leg pointing up, and 𡕒 (as in right side of 舛, roughly ヰ), which also has leg pointing down, but toe pointing left, hence different evolutions.

夂
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Han character

夂 (radical 34 夂+0, 3 strokes, cangjie input 竹水 (HE), X竹水 (XHE))

1. go or walk slowly
2. KangXi radical 34

Related characters

• 夅 舛 夃

References

• KangXi: page 244, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5691
• Dae Jaweon: page 484, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 867, character 15
• Unihan data for U+5902

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Cantonese

Hanzi

夂 (Yale ji1)

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Japanese

Kanji

夂 (uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

• On: ち (chi), しゅう (shū), しゅ (shu)
• Kun: おくれる (okureru)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

夂 (pinyin chǔ (chu3), zhǐ (zhi3), Wade-Giles ch'u³, chih³)

(archaic) (as defined above)

夂 (pinyin chǔ (chu3), zhǐ (zhi3), Wade-Giles ch'u³, chih³)

(archaic) of 終

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Vietnamese

Han character

夂 (tri, truy)