行

Usage notes
行 itself is also used as a radical (in addition to ); unusually for radicals, the phonetic is placed in the middle – with 彳 on the left and 亍 on the right – corresponding to the phonetic originally being placed at the middle of the intersection.

Derived characters

 * Appendix:Chinese radical/行

Glyph origin
– a street intersection.

Originally symmetric, it has been simplified asymmetrically; the left half is widely used as a radical, while the right half  finds occasional use, and the character can be broken up as, though originally it was not a compound.

Definitions

 * 1)  to walk
 * 2)  to go
 * 3)  to navigate
 * 4)  to roam; to stroll; to wander
 * 5)  to run
 * 6) to go; to move
 * 7) to carry out; to execute
 * 8) to perform (a salute)
 * 9) OK; good
 * 10) to be good; to work
 * 11) to be good (opposed to bad) (usually in negative sentences, or with )
 * 12) to be able to do something (usually mentioned before)
 * 13)  remarkable
 * 14)  trending; fashionable; popular
 * 15)  vedana
 * 1) to be good (opposed to bad) (usually in negative sentences, or with )
 * 2) to be able to do something (usually mentioned before)
 * 3)  remarkable
 * 4)  trending; fashionable; popular
 * 5)  vedana
 * 1)  remarkable
 * 2)  trending; fashionable; popular
 * 3)  vedana
 * 1)  trending; fashionable; popular
 * 2)  vedana
 * 1)  vedana

Usage notes
Notice that when meaning “be able to do something”, 行 can only be used without a complement. This is different from.

Definitions

 * 1) profession; industry; trade; business
 * 2) place for specific transaction
 * 3) line of objects; row
 * 4)  row (in data tables)
 * 5)  column (in data tables)
 * 6)  coarse; of poor quality; too general
 * 1)  row (in data tables)
 * 2)  column (in data tables)
 * 3)  coarse; of poor quality; too general
 * 1)  coarse; of poor quality; too general
 * 1)  coarse; of poor quality; too general
 * 1)  coarse; of poor quality; too general

Descendants
Others:

Definitions

 * 1)  behaviour; conduct

Definitions

 * 1) skill from monk training

Definitions

 * 1) order; rank

Definitions

 * 1) to endure; to bear; to get by

Kanji

 * 1) to go
 * 2) to carry out
 * 3) line, row

Readings
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From native roots:

Etymology 1
From. First cited in Buddhist texts of the early 600s.

The goon pronunciation, so likely an earlier borrowing.
 * For the "formations" definition, translation of
 * For "austerities", translation of
 * For "walking", translation of

Noun

 * 1)  a line of text
 * 2)   a row of a matrix
 * 3)  a row or column, such as in a table; more specifically, such a row or column in the gojūon table, which consists of kana that have or historically had the same initial consonant
 * °N, °W
 * 1)   saṅkhāra: formations, mental activity; one of the
 * 2)   caryā: austerities; practice or discipline for enlightenment
 * 3)   gamana: manner of going forward or walking
 * 1)   caryā: austerities; practice or discipline for enlightenment
 * 2)   gamana: manner of going forward or walking

Etymology 2
From. First cited to 1275.

The kan'on pronunciation, so likely the later borrowing.

Noun

 * 1) going; travelling (UK), traveling (US)
 * 2) type of classical Chinese verse (usually an epic)
 * 3)  merchant's association; guild

Affix

 * 1) journey; travel
 * 2) carry around

Etymology 4
Cognate with.

Noun

 * 1) vertical row
 * 2) vertical line

Suffix

 * 1) used to count lines of sentences

Etymology 5
Various nanori readings.

Proper noun

 * 1) A place name

Proper noun

 * 1) A place name

Etymology 1
From.
 * “movement; going”

From.
 * “behaviour; conduct”


 * “line; row”
 * From a corrupted or unorthodox reading. The original reading is based on Middle Chinese.


 * “place for specific transaction”
 * From a corrupted or unorthodox reading. The original reading is based on Middle Chinese.

Etymology 2
From.

Han character

 * 1) goods, product
 * 2) shop
 * 3) queue
 * 4)  line
 * 5)  a place
 * 6)  virtue
 * 7) rank
 * 8) company, firm
 * 9)  to go, to travel (on a long journey).