(pǎo) - to run, to flee in Mandarin

pǎo

Traditional: 跑

HSK 2

#280 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

to run, to flee

Word origin

跑 (pǎo) is a phono-semantic compound of 足, the foot radical, and 包 (bāo) marking the sound. The foot radical signals movement on the feet, giving the sense 'to run'.

Origin: phono-semantic compound
Root: 足 (foot radical) + 包 (bāo, phonetic)

Stroke order

跑

Examples

！

Run quickly!

。

He runs very fast.

。

He runs very fast.

。

The children are running in the park.

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The dog ran across the road.

跑 (pǎo) means to run, to flee. It is used as a verb in everyday Mandarin speech.

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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 跑.

逃跑táo pǎoto flee, to run away, to escape

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This word is part of lesson 6.