走 Radical 156 — to walk, to go

Where the shape comes from

A person in motion above a foot: the top was originally a figure with the arms swinging, the bottom is 止, the footprint. It meant "to run" in classical Chinese and "to walk, to leave" today, and it heads verbs of movement: 起, 越, 超, 赶.

characters filed under 走

• 走zǒu (third tone, dipping)to walk, to go on foot; to leave, to go away; to move, to run (of a machine); to visit7
• 起qǐ (third tone, dipping)to rise, to get up, to stand up; to begin; to raise; a measure word for cases or incidents10