Memory phrase for the Kanji: 跑


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Meaning

to run, to escape, race

Pronunciation

pǎo

Explanation

Left: foot (= knee cap and footprint ), right: to wrap (The wrap itself makes it to be wrapped.)

Mnemonic

When the feet almost "wrap" themselves, you are running to escape.

Radicals

foot
package, to cover, to wrapActually with a "snake" 巳, but simplified understood as a variation of self .
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Vocabulary

 起跑  qǐ pǎo  to start running; the start of a race
 逃跑  táo pǎo  to flee from sth; to run away; to escape
 奔跑  bēn pǎo  to run
 空跑一趟  kōng pǎo yī tàng  to make a journey for nothing
 白跑一趟  bái pǎo yī tàng  to go on an errand for nothing; to go on a wild-goose chase
 白跑一趟  bái pǎo yī tàng  


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