走

See also 赱

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 夭 (“young, running man”) + 止 (“foot”) – a running man with foot underneath. Top component (夭) simplified to 土, while bottom component drawn rather as 疋, without the top stroke.

As with 圭, there are two separate vertical strokes, not a single one.

Han character

走 (radical 156 走+0, 7 strokes, cangjie input 土卜人 (GYO), four-corner 4080₁)

1. walk, go on foot
2. run
3. leave

Derived characters

• Chinese radical index: 走

References

• KangXi: page 1215, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 37034
• Dae Jaweon: page 1683, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3473, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8D70

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Cantonese

Hanzi

走 (Yale jau2)

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Japanese

Kanji

走 (grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. run

Readings

• On: そう (sō), しゅ (shu)
• Kun: はしる (hashiru)

Compounds

競走 (きょうそう, kyōsō) 走行 (そうこう, sōkō)

疾走 (しっそう, shissō) 完走 (かんそう, kansō)

走幅跳 (はしりはばとび, hashirihabatobi)

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Korean

Hanja

走 (hangeul 주, revised ju, McCune-Reischauer chu, Yale cwu)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

走 (pinyin zǒu (zou3), Wade-Giles tsou³)

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Min Nan

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ tsau˥˧ ]

Verb

走 (traditional and simplified, POJ cháu)

1. to jog
2. to run

See also

• (Mandarin) 跑 (pǎo) to run
• (Mandarin) 跑步 (pǎobù) to jog

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Vietnamese

Han character

走 (tẩu, rảo)