yǐn
walk
Derived from 彳, which depicts a street intersection. The last stroke is lengthen to indicate the meaning "walk" or "long stride".
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 2 |
Unicode | U+5EF4 |
Shuowen | “廴,長行也。从彳引之。” |
Sources
李学勤《字源》p.141
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