漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
往: journey, travel
Also: chase away, let go, going, before, formerly
JLPT N18 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met
彳 carries the meaning · 主 is drawn in
8 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Small seal · Qin Today
Oracle bone and small seal: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
オウou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 往年おうねんformer, one-time, years ago
- 往来おうらいcomings and goings, traffic
- 往復するおうふくするmake a round trip
- 往診するおうしんするmake a house call
- 往生するおうじょうするdie peacefully, be in a fix
- 右往左往するうおうさおうするgo every which way
- 立ち往生するたちおうじょうするbe brought to a standstill [v.i.]
Also read いく, いにしえ, さきに, ゆく, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Take the first step on your journey! These three quick strokes show the left side of a bustling street or a person taking a brisk step forward.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
主
Also built on lord (主)
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side往 journey · 彳
vs住 dwell · 亻In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · wǎng
Same form: 往 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 往 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 往 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin wǎng most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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