chuò
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 to walk haltingly; to stop and start walking
  2. 2 the source form of the 辶 walk radical

Examples

Tā yánzhe hébiān zǒu.
He walked along the riverbank.

Tips

history
is not used independently in modern Chinese. It is the full source form of the walk radical, which contracts to (the bottom-left 'walk' stroke). That radical drives motion characters like -related (to advance), (side), and (to greet).
register
Archaic and literary only. You will meet in etymology notes and old texts, never as a standalone word in speech.

Components

ideograph
chuò
to walk haltingly
Treated as one unit. Historically it combined a 'foot' element below a 'crossroads' element to picture stop-and-go walking; the modern form fused into a single graph and contracts to the everyday walk radical .

Stroke Order

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