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)

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 (Jyutping zau2, Yale jau2)

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Hakka

Hanzi

走 (POJ tséu, Guangdong tseu³; tsiu³ [Bao'an], tsieu³ [Hong Kong], Hagfa Pinyim zeu3)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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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, 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)

Verb

走 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin zǒu)

1. to go, to walk

   走吧! zǒu ba!

   Let's go!

   他走在我的面前。 tā zǒu zài wǒde miànqián.

   He walked before me.

2. to leave, to go away
3. (for device) to run, to work

   我的手表不走了。 wǒde shǒubiǎo bù zǒu le.

   My watch doesn' t work.

4. to visit, to call on
5. to make a move

   我的对手走了一步妙棋。wǒde duìshǒu zǒu le yībù miào qí.

   My opponent made a clever move.

   该你走了。 gāi nǐ zǒu le.

   It's your move.

6. to die

Preposition

走 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin zǒu)

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.

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Min Nan

Hanzi

走 (POJ chó͘ (chó͘²), cháu (chau²), TLPA tsóo (tsoo²), tsáu (tsau²))

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ tsau˥˧ ]

Verb

走 (traditional and simplified, POJ chó͘, cháu)

1. to jog
2. to run

See also

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

References

• Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Vietnamese

Han character

走 (tẩu, rảo)