Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Han character

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

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

Chinese

Glyph origin

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. The top component (夭) simplified to the unrelated 土 (tǔ).

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

Pronunciation

Definitions

走

1. 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!
   • 走著去火車站要多久？ [MSC, trad.]
     走着去火车站要多久？ [MSC, simp.]

     Zǒu zhe qù huǒchēzhàn yào duōjiǔ? [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 ngaam¹zau² 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. (of devices) to run; to work
   • 我的手錶不走了。 / 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 lose 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
10. from; through
    • 我們可以走這邊進去。 [MSC, trad.]
      我们可以走这边进去。 [MSC, simp.]

      Wǒmen kěyǐ zǒu zhèbiān jìnqù. [Pinyin]

      We can get in from this side.

See also

• 跑 (pǎo, “to run; (dialectal) to leave; (dialectal) to go”)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. run

Readings

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

Compounds

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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