chān

to walk slowly

A foot  strolling down the road 

Components

Meaning component
yǐn, yìn walk
Meaning component
zhǐ (foot), stop

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

說文解字

安步㢟㢟也。从廴从止。凡㢟之屬皆从㢟。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical images
Academia Sinica