zhú
verb #15,285

Meanings

  1. 1 to pursue
  2. 2 to chase
  3. 3 one by one

Examples

Zhújiàn
gradually
Zhúbù
step by step
Zhuīzhú
to chase

Tips

memory
(walk) + (pig) — chasing a pig
usage
逐一 means 'one by one', 逐渐 means 'gradually'

Components

radical
chuò
walk; advance (motion radical)
Bottom-left walk radical, side-form of — a foot at a crossroads, indexing all motion verbs. Wraps under and to the left of to give 'chasing the pig on foot.' Same family: chase, advance, 退 retreat, return — every road-and-foot verb in the language.
semantic
shǐ
pig; boar
Upper-right — pictograph of a pig with curling tail. The oracle-bone form of showed a foot chasing a boar, capturing the original meaning: hunters running down game. The pig is the thing being pursued, baked into the character's etymology and still visible at the top.

Stroke Order

zhú