go

Origin & mnemonic

This radical originates from a pictograph depicting a person walking or standing still, with two legs shown as two vertical strokes. In seal script and oracle-bone script, this form evolved into the modern character.

Mnemonic: Remember two legs standing or stepping in the three strokes of the "go" radical.

• 夂zhǐ🔊

  "walk slowly" component in Chinese characters

  3 strokes

• 处chù🔊

  (bound form) place; locality

  HSK 4

  5 strokes

• 処chǔ🔊

  old variant of 處|处[chu3]

  5 strokes

• 务wù🔊

  affair

  5 strokes

• 夅jiàng🔊

  old variant of 降[jiang4]

  6 strokes

• 夆féng🔊

  to butt (as horned animals)

  7 strokes

• 备bèi🔊

  variant of 備|备[bei4]

  8 strokes

• 惫bèi🔊

  exhausted

  12 strokes