行

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(bound form) to walk; to go; to travel; (literary) trip; journey; visit; (bound form) temporary; makeshift; (bound form) current; in circulation; (bound form) to do; to perform; capable; competent; all right; OK!; will do; behavior; conduct (Taiwan pr. [xing4]); (literary) about to; soon

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HSK 3.0: Level 1
Old HSK: Level 3
Strokes: 6
Radical: 行 itself
Structure: Left–right 左右
Traditional: 行
Common rank: #36
Unicode: U+884C

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Formation & memory

Break the character into parts you already know.

How 行 is formed

Ideographic compound (会意字)

To take small steps 亍 with one's feet 彳

Components 彳亍

How to remember it

line of business · Heisig RSH #754

— as a component also called: queue, boulevard

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Words with 行

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
人行区	rén xíng qū	pedestrian precinct
不行	bù xíng	won't do; be out of the question; be no good; not work; not be capable
人行	Rén háng	People's Bank of China (abbr. for 中國人民銀行\|中国人民银行[Zhong1 guo2 Ren2 min2 Yin2 hang2])
行人	xíng rén	pedestrian; traveler on foot; passer-by; official responsible for arranging audiences with…
一行	yī xíng	party; delegation
山行	shān xíng	mountain hike
国行	guó háng	(of a product etc) officially sold for the mainland China market
行市	háng shì	quotation on market price
行头	háng tóu	(archaic) leader of a troop of soldiers; (archaic) guild leader
行头	xíng tou	a person's clothing; outfit; actor's costume
中行	Zhōng háng	abbr. for 中國銀行\|中国银行[Zhong1 guo2 Yin2 hang2]
自行	zì xíng	voluntary; autonomous; by oneself; self-
发行人	fā xíng rén	publisher; issuer
性行	xìng xíng	sexual activity
三人行	sān rén xíng	(slang) threesome
山地自行车	shān dì zì xíng chē	mountain bike
行家	háng jiā	connoisseur; expert; veteran
行动	xíng dòng	operation; action; CL:個\|个[ge4]; to move about; mobile
人行道	rén xíng dào	sidewalk
行人道	xíng rén dào	(dialect) sidewalk

Sound family

These characters use 行 as their sound component — compare how they read.

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
行 sound part	xíng	to go, to walk, to move; professional
衔	xián	rank, title; to bite, to hold in the mouth
桁	héng	the cross-beams of a roof
荇	xìng	a water plant, Nymphoides peltalum
筕	háng	woven bamboo mat
绗	háng	to quilt
珩	héng	central gem; crown jewel