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往

wǎng

go

Phonosemantic compound. 彳 and 止 represent the meaning, and 王 represents the sound.

Components
彳 meaning component

彳  Meaning component

chì

  

walk

彳 is a component form of 行.

止 meaning component

止  Meaning component

zhǐ

  

(foot), stop

Depicts a foot. Abbreviated to a single stroke in the modern form.

王 sound component

王  Sound component

wáng, wàng

  

king

Evolution

往 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
往 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
往 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
往 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

往  

wǎng

go, depart; past, formerly; to go (in a direction); to; towards; (of a train) bound for; past; previous

往 (徃) 

wǎng

old variant of 往[wǎng]

Most common words with 往
Freq.
Word
Meaning

往

to

往往

usually

前往

to leave for

交往

to associate (with)

以往

in the past

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*ɢʷaŋʔ

hjwangX

wǎng

go to


Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 68.3806% of movies

571st most common character in movies

369th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+5F80

Shuowen

“往，之也。从彳，聲。，古文从辵。”


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