走

See also: 赱

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Etymology

Historical forms of the character 走
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)

1. Kangxi radical #156, ⾛ ‎(“run”).
2. Shuōwén Jiězì radical №26

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/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

simp. and trad.		走

Alternative forms

• 赱

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zǒu (zou³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄡˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zau²
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chéu
• Min Nan (POJ): cháu / chó͘
• Wu (Wiktionary): tseu (T2)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: zǒu
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄡˇ
    • Wade-Giles: tsou³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzoou
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡soʊ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zau²
    • Yale: jáu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzau²
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sɐu̯³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chéu
    • Hakka Romanization System: zeu`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: zeu³
    • IPA: /t͡se̯u³¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: cháu / chó͘
    • Tâi-lô: tsáu / tsóo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zao, zor
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡saʊ⁵³/, /t͡sɔ⁵³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡saʊ⁵³/, /t͡sɔ⁵³/
    • Note: cháu - vernacular; chó͘ - literary.
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: tseu (T2)
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sɜ³⁴/

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 走
Mandarin	Beijing	/t͡sou²¹⁴/
	Harbin	/t͡sou²¹³/
	Tianjin	/t͡sou¹³/
	Jinan	/t͡sou⁵⁵/
	Qingdao	/t͡sou⁵⁵/
	Zhengzhou	/t͡sou⁵³/
	Xi'an	/t͡sou⁵³/
	Xining	/t͡sɯ⁵³/
	Yinchuan	/t͡səu⁵³/
	Lanzhou	/t͡sou⁴⁴²/
	Ürümqi	/t͡sɤu⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/t͡səu⁴²/
	Chengdu	/t͡səu⁵³/
	Guiyang	/t͡səu⁴²/
	Kunming	/t͡səu⁵³/
	Nanjing	/t͡səɯ²¹²/
	Hefei	/t͡sɯ²⁴/
Jin	Taiyuan	/t͡səu⁵³/
	Pingyao	/t͡səu⁵³/
	Hohhot	/t͡səu⁵³/
Wu	Shanghai	/t͡sɤ³⁵/
	Suzhou	/t͡sɤ⁵¹/
	Hangzhou	/t͡sei⁵³/
	Wenzhou	/t͡sau³⁵/
Hui	Shexian	/t͡so³⁵/
	Tunxi	/t͡sə³¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/t͡səu⁴¹/
	Xiangtan	/t͡səɯ⁴²/
Gan	Nanchang	/t͡sɛu²¹³/
Hakka	Meixian	/t͡seu³¹/
	Taoyuan	/t͡seu³¹/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/t͡sɐu³⁵/
	Nanning	/t͡sɐu³⁵/
	Hong Kong	/t͡sɐu³⁵/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/t͡sɔ⁵³/ /t͡sau⁵³/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/t͡sau³²/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/t͡se²¹/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/zau⁵³/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/tau²¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: /t͡səu^X/, /t͡səu^H/▼

Rime
Character	走	走
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	精 (13)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	侯 (137)	侯 (137)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	子苟切	則候切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡səuX/	/t͡səuH/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡səuX/	/t͡səuH/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡səuX/	/t͡səuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡səwX/	/t͡səwH/
Li Rong	/t͡suX/	/t͡suH/
Wang Li	/t͡səuX/	/t͡səuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡sə̯uX/	/t͡sə̯uH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zǒu	zòu

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsoːʔ/, /*ʔsoːs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	走	走
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	17906	17907
Phonetic component	走	走
Rime group	侯	侯
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	走	奏
Old Chinese	/*ʔsoːʔ/	/*ʔsoːs/

Verb

走

1. (Beginning Mandarin) to go; to walk; to go on foot
   • 走吧！  ―  Zǒu ba!  ―  Let's go!
   • 他走在我的面前。  ―  Tā zǒu zài wǒ de miànqián.  ―  He walked before me.
   • 不要走得那麼快！ / 不要走得那么快！  ―  Bù yào zǒu dé nàme kuài!  ―  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。  ―  Wǒ yào zǒu le.  ―  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]  ―  Keoi⁵ ngaam¹ ngaam¹ zau² zo². [Jyutping]  ―  He/she just left.
3. to leak; to let out
   • 煤氣管道走氣了。 / 煤气管道走气了。  ―  Méiqì guǎndào zǒu qì le.  ―  gas is leaking from the pipe.
4. (for device) to run, to work
   • 我的手表不走了。  ―  Wǒ de shǒubiǎo bù zǒu le.  ―  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。 / 该你走了。  ―  Gāi nǐ zǒu le.  ―  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 (pǎo) ("to run", used in some dialects with the meaning "to leave", "to go")

Preposition

走

1. from, through

References

• “走”, in MDBG English to Chinese dictionary ( Based on CC-CEDICT )^[1] (in Mandarin/English), accessed 2014-03-19
• “Sentences with 走”, in Tatoeba^[2], accessed 2014-03-19
• “Jukuu”, in Jukuu^[3] (in Mandarin/English), accessed 2014-03-19
• (Min Nan) “Entry #3404”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

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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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