步

See also 歩

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 止 + 𣥂

Han character

步 (radical 77 止+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 卜中一竹 (YLMH), four-corner 2120₉)

1. step, pace
2. walk, stroll

Descendants

• 踄, 歲, 涉, 陟, 荹

References

• KangXi: page 574, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16264
• Dae Jaweon: page 964, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1438, character 6
• Unihan data for U+6B65

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Cantonese

Hanzi

步 (jyutping bou6, Yale bou6)

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Japanese

Kanji

步

Readings

• On: ほ (ho), ぶ (bu), ふ (fu)
• Kun: あるく (aruku), あゆむ (ayumu), あゆみ (ayumi)

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Korean

Hanja

步 (hangeul 보, revised bo, McCune-Reischauer po, Yale po)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

步 (pinyin bù (bu4), Wade-Giles pu⁴)

Compounds

• 步槍

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Vietnamese

Han character

步 (bộ, bụa, buạ)