step

Origin & mnemonic

This radical originates from a pictograph of footsteps or footprints in oracle-bone script. The three strokes represent the forward movement of successive steps.

Mnemonic: Three parallel strokes resemble three successive footprints left in sand or mud as one walks.

• 彻chè🔊

  thorough

  7 strokes

• 彷páng🔊

  used in 彷徨[pang2 huang2] and 彷徉[pang2 yang2]

  7 strokes

• 役yì🔊

  forced labor

  7 strokes

• 彸zhōng🔊

  restless, agitated

  7 strokes

• 往wǎng🔊

  to go (in a direction)

  HSK 2

  8 strokes

• 彼bǐ🔊

  that

  8 strokes

• 彽chí🔊

  go to and fro

  8 strokes

• 征zhēng🔊

  journey

  HSK 7

  8 strokes

• 徂cú🔊

  to go

  8 strokes

• 径jìng🔊

  footpath

  8 strokes

• 很hěn🔊

  very; quite

  HSK 1

  9 strokes

• 后hòu🔊

  empress

  HSK 1

  9 strokes

• 待dài🔊

  to wait

  HSK 5

  9 strokes

• 律lǜ🔊

  law

  9 strokes

• 徇xùn🔊

  variant of 徇[xun4]

  9 strokes

• 㣟xì🔊

  to go

  9 strokes

• 徉yáng🔊

  to walk back and forth

  9 strokes

• 徊huái🔊

  used in 徘徊[pai2 huai2]

  9 strokes

• 徐xú🔊

  slowly

  10 strokes

• 徒tú🔊

  (bound form) disciple; apprentice; believer; (derog.) wrongdoer (as in 騙徒|骗徒[pian4 tu2] "swindler" or 叛徒[pan4 tu2] "traitor" etc)

  10 strokes

• 従cóng🔊

  old variant of 從|从[cong2]

  10 strokes

• 徕lái🔊

  used in 招徠|招徕[zhao1 lai2]

  10 strokes