go slowly

Origin & mnemonic

This radical originates from a pictograph depicting a person walking slowly or deliberately, with legs shown in a stepping motion. It symbolizes careful, deliberate movement—progressing one step at a time.

Mnemonic: Three strokes show a person's legs stepping forward slowly, one careful step at a time down the path.

• 夊suī🔊

  see 夂[zhi3]

  3 strokes

• 夌líng🔊

  to dawdle

  8 strokes

• 复fù🔊

  to go and return

  9 strokes

• 夏xià🔊

  summer

  10 strokes

• 夒náo🔊

  a kind of gibbon (old variant of 猱[nao2])

  19 strokes

• 夓xià🔊

  old variant of 夏[xia4]

  19 strokes

• 夔Kuí🔊

  one-legged mountain demon of Chinese mythology

  21 strokes