chuò

walk

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Depicts a foot () walking in the middle of a street (). This character very rarely appears by itself. It is generally used as a component in other characters written as .

Components

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is a component form of .

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Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangtʰaɡ

說文解字

《說文》:“辵,乍行乍止也。从彳,从止。讀若《春秋公羊傳》曰:‘辵階而走’。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica