chù
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 to take a small step with the right foot (only used in 彳亍)

Examples

湖边彳亍
Tā zài húbiān chìchù.
He paced slowly along the lakeside.

Tips

usage
never stands alone. It pairs with (a step with the left foot) only in the literary word 彳亍, meaning 'to walk slowly / pace to and fro'. Together the two halves spell out left-step, right-step.

Components

ideograph
chù
a right-foot step
An abstract figure of half a footstep, the mirror of . A pure stroke symbol, not decomposable into smaller parts in .

Filed under radical (èr, #7) by convention. is not a separate component in , so no strokes are highlighted.

Stroke Order

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