走
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)
7 strokes
Dict coverage rank #319 U+8D70
How 走 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
Someone 土 stepping with their foot 止
How to remember it
walk · Heisig RSH #391
mending + 土 soil
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 走 as their sound component
These characters all use 走 (zǒu) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 走 sound component | zǒu | to walk, to run, to flee |
| 陡 | dǒu | steep, sloping; sudden, abrupt |
Words containing 走
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 走门子 | zǒu mén zi | see 走門路|走门路[zou3 men2 lu4] |
| 走神儿 | zǒu shén r | absent-minded; one's mind is wandering |
| 无路可走 | wú lù kě zǒu | nowhere to go; at the end of one's tether |
| 走子 | zǒu zǐ | a move (in chess) |
| 走回头路 | zǒu huí tóu lù | to turn back; to backtrack; (fig.) to revert to the former way of doing things |
| 走人 | zǒu rén | (coll.) to leave; to beat it |
| 走山 | zǒu shān | landslide; avalanche; to take a walk in the mountains |
| 走水 | zǒu shuǐ | to leak; to flow; to catch on fire |
| 走心 | zǒu xīn | to take care; to be mindful; (Internet slang) to be moved by sth; poignant; to have deep f… |
| 走后门 | zǒu hòu mén | (lit.) to enter through the back door; (fig.) to pull strings; to use connections; (fig.) … |
| 走马 | zǒu mǎ | to ride (a horse); to go on horseback |
| 走门路 | zǒu mén lù | to use social connections; to toady to influential people |
| 太空行走 | tài kōng xíng zǒu | spacewalk |
| 集体行走 | jí tǐ xíng zǒu | pedestrian group (e.g. of tourists etc) |
| 走动 | zǒu dòng | to walk around; to move about; to stretch one's legs; to go for a walk; to be mobile (e.g.… |
| 行走 | xíng zǒu | to walk |
| 走为上 | zǒu wéi shàng | 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 | chū zǒu | to leave home; to go off; to run away |
| 走出 | zǒu chū | to leave (a room etc); to go out through (a door etc) |
| 走形儿 | zǒu xíng r | out of shape; to lose shape; to deform |