走
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to walk; to go; to run; to move (of vehicle); to visit; to leave; to go away; to die (euph.); from; through; away (in compound verbs, such as 撤走[che4 zou3]); to change (shape, form, meaning)
- HSK 3.0
- Level 1
- Old HSK
- Level 2
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 走 itself
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 走
- Common rank
- #319
- Unicode
- U+8D70
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 走
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 走路 | to walk; to go on foot; to leave; to depart; (informal) to clear off; to beat it; (of sb w… | |
| 走门子 | see 走門路|走门路[zou3 men2 lu4] | |
| 走神儿 | absent-minded; one's mind is wandering | |
| 无路可走 | nowhere to go; at the end of one's tether | |
| 走子 | a move (in chess) | |
| 走回头路 | to turn back; to backtrack; (fig.) to revert to the former way of doing things | |
| 走人 | (coll.) to leave; to beat it | |
| 走山 | landslide; avalanche; to take a walk in the mountains | |
| 走水 | to leak; to flow; to catch on fire | |
| 走心 | to take care; to be mindful; (Internet slang) to be moved by sth; poignant; to have deep f… | |
| 走后门 | (lit.) to enter through the back door; (fig.) to pull strings; to use connections; (fig.) … | |
| 走马 | to ride (a horse); to go on horseback | |
| 走门路 | to use social connections; to toady to influential people | |
| 太空行走 | spacewalk | |
| 集体行走 | pedestrian group (e.g. of tourists etc) | |
| 走动 | to walk around; to move about; to stretch one's legs; to go for a walk; to be mobile (e.g.… | |
| 行走 | to walk | |
| 走为上 | see 三十六計，走為上策|三十六计，走为上策[san1 shi2 liu4 ji4 , zou3 wei2 shang4 ce4] | |
| 出走 | to leave home; to go off; to run away | |
| 走出 | to leave (a room etc); to go out through (a door etc) |
Sound family
These characters use 走 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 走 sound part | to walk, to run, to flee | |
| 陡 | steep, sloping; sudden, abrupt |