(xíng) - OK, all right, capable; to walk in Mandarin
xíngTraditional: 行
Translation
OK, all right, capable; to walk
Word origin
The character 行 (xíng) 'to walk, to go, OK' is a pictograph of a crossroads or junction of paths, hence the senses of walking, going, and a road.
- Origin
- pictograph
- Root
- depicts a crossroads or junction of paths
Stroke order
行
Examples
？
Is this OK?
，。
All right, it's settled.
。
He walked for two hours.
？
Is it alright to go to the cinema tomorrow?
。
This method will not work.
行 (xíng) - OK, all right, capable; to walk.
Appears in 9 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 行.
Used in
Stories
(1)Grammar articles
(4)The Mandarin 把 (bǎ) Construction: Fronting the Object to Say What You Did To It
The Mandarin 被 (bèi) Passive: Saying Something Was Done To the Subject
Figurative Directional Complements in Mandarin: 起来, 下去 and 出来 Beyond Up, Down and Out
Mandarin Potential Complements: Can You Reach the Result? (吃得完, 听不懂, 买不起)
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