(pǎo) - to run, to flee in Mandarin
pǎoTraditional: 跑
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!
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He runs very fast.
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He runs very fast.
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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.
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