字の旅3,000 years in four forms
Oracle bone · ShangShang · c. 1200 BCE乙768 合17230 賓組
Oracle bone and bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
部首Radical · in Action & Movement
走
走 to run
そうにょう sounyou
7 strokesRadical of 6 kanjiPart of 7
Your ink in 走0% painted · 0 of 6 familiar
Origin · sourced
Pictogram象形
A running man. An additional 止 (“foot”) was added later.
Source: Wiktionary, 走 (rev. 91979180), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Pick up the pace! Imagine a runner speeding down a track, their feet barely touching the earth. This radical brings the energy of speed, movement, and "exceeding" boundaries to a kanji. When you see it wrapping around the bottom and left, think of a race, a journey, or the act of surpassing a limit with great effort.”
Where it sits in a kanji
Indicates running, swift movement, surpassing/exceeding limits, traveling quickly to a destination, or a state of vigorous action.
育つ
What it grows into
Built from 走, with sourced origins
- 越surpassエツ · こす
- 起rouseキ · おきる
走 + 巳sound
Phono-semantic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 超transcendチョウ · こえる
走 + 召sound
Phono-semantic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
一覧
Every kanji with 走 as its radical
Most used first
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
All 6 kanji