mài
take a big stride
To take ten thousand 萬 steps 辶
Evolution
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 邁
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to stride | ||
Miami (Florida) | ||
Michael (name) | ||
to step out | ||
to step in |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*mˤrat-s | maejH | mài | proceed, march |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 15.2491% of movies
1102nd most common character in movies
1698th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9081 |
Shuowen | “邁，遠行也。从辵，蠆省聲。，邁或不省。” |
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