Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement

行: going, journey

Also: carry out, conduct, act, line, row, bank

JLPT N56 strokesGrade 2Your ink: 白 Not met
6 strokes
  • Oracle bone · Shang
  • Bronze · Western Zhou
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Oracle bone, bronze and small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Six readings, and the words that use each

コウkou · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 旅行するりょこうするtravel
  • 歩行するほこうするwalk
  • 実行するじっこうするact, carry out, practice
  • 銀行ぎんこうbank

ギョウgyou · on'yomi

  • 行政ぎょうせいadministration
  • 一行目いちぎょうめfirst line
  • 行事ぎょうじevent

アンan · on'yomi

  • 行脚するあんぎゃするgo on pilgrimage

いくiku · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 行くいく/ゆくgo

-いき-iki · kun'yomi

  • 行き先いきさき/ゆきさきdestination

おこなうokonau · kun'yomi

  • 行うおこなうdo

Also read ゆく, -ゆき, -ゆき, -いき, おこなう, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

Learn it 4 steps
Print sheet Present
成り立ち

Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Pictogram (象形)彳 + 亍

Source: Wiktionary, 行 (rev. 92642053), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Left step (彳) + right step (亍) = the complete, joined act of walking down a path; the base kanji for going or performing.”
From the 彳 step story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
彳

Also built on step (彳)

All 19

行 gives its sound to

The family reading is コウ (kou). Sound parts: KanjiVG.

Also read コウ

96 kanji share this on'yomiAll 96

Also read ギョウ

6 kanji share this on'yomi

Also read アン

6 kanji share this on'yomi
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · xíng

Same form: 行 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
行 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
行 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin xíng 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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