走

See also: 赱

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Etymology

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

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)

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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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		走

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zǒu (zou³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄡˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zau²
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): chéu
• Min Nan (POJ): cháu / chó͘
• Wu (WT Romanisation): tseu (T2)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: zǒu
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄡˇ
    • Wade-Giles: tsou³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzoou
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡soʊ̯²¹⁴/

    • (file)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zau²
    • Yale: jáu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzau²
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sɐu̯³⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chéu
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /t͡se̯u³¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: cháu / chó͘
    • Tâi-lô: tsáu / tsó͘
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡saʊ⁴¹/, /t͡sɔ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡saʊ⁵³/, /t͡sɔ⁵³/
  • Note: chó͘ is literary.
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • WT Romanisation: tseu (T2)
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sɜ³⁴/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (走, reconstructed)
Character (走), Pronunciation 1/2
Initial: 精 (13) Final: 侯 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 子苟切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/t͡səuX/	/t͡sə̯uX/	/t͡suX/	/t͡səuX/	/t͡səwX/	/t͡səuX/	/t͡səuX/
Character (走), Pronunciation 2/2
Initial: 精 (13) Final: 侯 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 則候切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/t͡səuH/	/t͡sə̯uH/	/t͡suH/	/t͡səuH/	/t͡səwH/	/t͡səuH/	/t͡səuH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (走, reconstructed)
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
走					17906					走					侯					0					走					/*ʔsoːʔ/
走					17907					走					侯					0					奏					/*ʔsoːs/

Verb

走

1. (Beginning Mandarin) to go; to walk; to go on foot

   走吧！ [MSC, trad. and simp.]

   Zǒu ba! [Pinyin]

   Let's go!

   他走在我的面前。 [MSC, trad. and simp.]

   Tā zǒu zài wǒ de miànqián. [Pinyin]

   He walked before me.

   不要走得那麼快！ [MSC, trad.]

   不要走得那么快！ [MSC, simp.]

   Bù yào zǒu dé nàme kuài! [Pinyin]

   Don't walk so fast!

   走着去火車站要多久？ [MSC, trad.]

   走着去火车站要多久？ [MSC, simp.]

   Zǒu zhe qù huǒchēzhàn yào duō jiǔ? [Pinyin]

   How long does it take to walk to the station?

2. to leave, to go away

   我要走了。 [MSC, trad. and simp.]

   Wǒ yào zǒu le. [Pinyin]

   I am going to go. / I am leaving

   儂啥辰光走？ [Shanghainese, trad.]

   侬啥辰光走？ [Shanghainese, simp.]

   When are you leaving?

   佢啱啱走咗。 [Guangzhou Cantonese, trad. and simp.]

   Keoi⁵ ngaam¹ ngaam¹ zau² zo². [Jyutping]

   He/she just left.

3. to leak; to let out
4. (for device) to run, to work

   我的手表不走了。 [MSC, trad. and simp.]

   Wǒ de shǒubiǎo bù zǒu le. [Pinyin]

   My watch doesn' t work.

5. to visit, to call on

   他們兩家走得很近。 [MSC, trad.]

   他们两家走得很近。 [MSC, simp.]

   Tāmen liǎng jiā zǒu dé hěn jìn. [Pinyin]

   The two families often visit each other.

6. to make a move

   我的對手走了一步妙棋。 [MSC, trad.]

   我的对手走了一步妙棋。 [MSC, simp.]

   Wǒ de duìshǒu zǒu le yī bù miào qí. [Pinyin]

   My opponent made a clever move (chess).

   該你走了。 [MSC, trad.]

   该你走了。 [MSC, simp.]

   Gāi nǐ zǒu le. [Pinyin]

   It's your move.

7. (euphemistic) to die
8. to change; to loose original shape, flavour, etc...

   鋼琴走調了，音色很難聽。 [MSC, trad.]

   钢琴走调了，音色很难听。 [MSC, simp.]

   Gāngqín zǒu diào le, yīnsè hěn nántīng. [Pinyin]

   The piano was out of tune; it sounded very bad.

9. (Cantonese, Min, Wu, dialectal Mandarin) to run, to jog

See also

• 跑 ("to run", used in some dialects with the meaning "to leave", "to go")

Preposition

走

1. from, through

References

• "走" (in Mandarin/English), MDBG English to Chinese dictionary ( Based on CC-CEDICT ). URL accessed on 2014-03-19.
• "Sentences with 走", Tatoeba. URL accessed on 2014-03-19.
• "Jukuu" (in Mandarin/English), Jukuu. URL accessed on 2014-03-19.
• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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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) 爆走 (ばくそう, bakusō)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

走 (tẩu, rảo)

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