Memory phrase for the character: 跑

跑

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to run, to escape, race

pǎo

Left: foot 足 (= knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: to wrap 包 (The wrap 勹 itself 己 makes it to be wrapped.)

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

足	foot
包	package, to cover, to wrap	The upper part 勹 itself already stands for "to enwrap" Actually it is with a "snake" 巳, but simplified understood as a variation of self 己.

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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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