Radical 156

走
Radical 156 (U+2F9B)
走 (U+8D70) "run"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	zǒu
Bopomofo:	ㄗㄡˇ
Wade–Giles:	tsou3
Cantonese Yale:	jau2
Jyutping:	zau2
Japanese Kana:	ソウ sō (on'yomi) はし-る hashi-ru (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	주 ju
Hán-Việt:	tẩu, rảo
Names
Chinese name(s):	走字底 zǒuzìdǐ
Japanese name(s):	走/はしる hashiru
Hangul:	달릴 dallil
Stroke order animation

Radical 156 or radical run (走部) meaning "run" is one of the 20 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 7 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 285 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

走 is also the 150th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

• 
  Shang dynasty Oracle bone script
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  Western Zhou Bronze script
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  Spring and Autumn period bronze script
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  Warring States period bronze script
• 
  Chu slip and silk script
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  Qin slip script
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  Large seal script character
• 
  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	走 赱 (=走)
+2	赲 赳 赴 赵SC (=趙)
+3	赶SC (=趕) 起 赸
+4	赹 赺 赻 赼 (=趑) 赽 赾 赿 (=遲 -> 辵)
+5	趀 趁 趂 (=趁) 趃 趄 超 趆 趇 趈 (=站 -> 立) 趉 越 趋SC (=趨)
+6	趌 趍 趎 趏 趐 趑 趒 趓 (=躲 -> 身) 趔
+7	趕 趖 趗 趘 趙 趚
+8	趛 趜 趝 趞 趟 趠 趡 趢 趣 趤
+9	趥 趦 趧
+10	趨
+12	趩 趪 趫 趬 趭
+13	趮
+14	趯 趰
+16	趱SC (=趲)
+19	趲

Further information: wikt:Appendix:Chinese radical/走

Sinogram

As an independent sinogram 走 is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is a second grade kanji.

Further reading

• Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
• Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.

External links

• Unihan Database - U+8D70