Kanji Kaisen

字の旅3,000 years in three forms

Oracle bone · ShangShang · c. 1200 BCE後2.14.18 (商)

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

The oracle bone and seal stages show 辵, not 辶 itself.

部首Radical · in Action & Movement

辶

辶 road, movement, advance

しんにょう shinnyou

4 strokesRadical of 55 kanjiPart of 57

Your ink in 辶0% painted · 0 of 55 familiar

Origin · sourced

Ideogrammic compound會意

A more conservative and obsolete version is 𣥆. The bottom part is now stylized as 龰.

Built from 彳 “walk” + 止 “foot” or “to stop”

Source: Wiktionary, 辵 (rev. 93449175), the entry for the full form, CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“This swooping radical is the winding road you walk upon! It curves under the rest of the kanji like a path being carved through a landscape. It carries the essence of progress, journeying, and the constant movement of life toward a destination.”

Where it sits in a kanji

Indicates travel, paths, progress, distance, or the physical act of going toward something

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What it grows into

Built from 辶, with sourced origins
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Every kanji with 辶 as its radical

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Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered

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