The Japanese Radical: 辶

Meaning	movement    辶
Explanation	The radical shinnyuu stands for movement and thus has the same meaning as the very similar radical ennyou 廴
Used in these characters: 遠 JLPT 4Joyo 2 distance, far, distant tōi, EN 辶 袁 衣 Left: movement 辶, right: (Chinese only) long robe 袁 (... down to the ground 土 extends the sleeve 口 of these clothes 衣.) The movement (to the land of) long robes (i.e. to Japan) is a far distance.   近 JLPT 4Joyo 2 near, close chikai, KIN 辶 斤 Left: movement 辶, right: axe 斤 "The axe's movement must be near and close - you can't chop from far away!   通 JLPT 4Joyo 2 pass, commute, communicate tōru, kayou, TSŪ 辶 マ 用 Left: movement 辶, right: 甬 (bent person マ, and use/usage 用 (= A fence 用 can be used.) The bent person needs movement for passing through (commuting).   道 JLPT 5Joyo 2 street, way, path michi, DŌ, TŌ 辶 首 Left: movement 辶, right: head 首 (eye 目 with bushy eyebrow 丷) The heads are in motion on the street.   運 JLPT 4Joyo 3 transport, luck, fortune, chance hakobu, UN 辶 軍 車 Left: movement 辶, right: army 軍 (... with covered 冖 vehicles 車 = camouflage) [cf. accompany 連] An army that moves needs: luck at the transport.   週 JLPT 5Joyo 2 week SHŪ 辶 周 吉 Left: movement 辶, right: around, circumference 周 (Also an enclosed 冂 luck 吉 affects the surrounding.) [吉 = A samurai 士 with a full mouth 口 is happy 吉] The movement takes a round of a week.   進 JLPT 4Joyo 3 go forward, advance susumu, SHIN 辶 隹 Left: movement 辶, right: bird 隹 (Birds can not fly backwards:) Birds move forward!   送 JLPT 4Joyo 3 send, dispatch okuru, SŌ 辶 丷 天 Left: movement 辶, right: sth. coming out 丷 (e.g. steam) and sky, heaven 天 Out of heaven, this movement was sent.   追 JLPT 3Joyo 3 chase, pursue, follow ou, TSUI 辶 Left: movement 辶, right: a pair of buttocks (both cheeks) (I see him from behind:) his buttocks in movement when I chase or follow him.   返 JLPT 3Joyo 3 return, replace kaesu/ru, HEN 辶 反 厂 又 Left: movement 辶, right: against/opposition 反 (Climbing the cliff 厂 by hand 又? I am opposing!) A movement into the 'opposite' means to return.   遊 JLPT 3Joyo 3 play, amuse, relax asobu, YŪ, YU 辶 方 子 From left: Movement 辶, direction 方, lying person and a child 子 In (various) directions you can lie and be a child when moving, while: playing!   選 JLPT 3Joyo 4 choice, choose, selection erabu, yoru, SEN 辶 己 共 Left: movement 辶, right: 2 x self/me 己, together 共 (Put the plants 艹 on the table together) (i.e. when dancing:) Both can do the movements each themselves or together: It's their choice.   速 JLPT 3Joyo 3 fast, quick, speed hayai, sumiyaka, SOKU 辶 束 Left: movement 辶, right: bundle 束 (Plants 木,禾 like sheafs of rice (cf. 兼) are bound with a ribbon 口 to a bundle 束) If you bundle it, the movement (= transport) is faster.   達 JLPT 3Joyo 4 accomplish, gain, attain, plural suffix -tachi, TATSU 辶 幸 羊 土 Left: movement 辶, right: variation of luck 幸 (earth 土 (=grazing lands 土) and sheep 羊) For (new grazing) lands the sheep need to move, for: accomplishment. (Or: With a kind of luck and movements [=activity] you can accomplish.)   辺 JLPT 3Joyo 4 environs, vicinity, neighborhood atari, be, HEN 辶 刀 Left: movement 辶, right: sword 刀 What the movement of a sword can reach, is in the environs.   連 JLPT 3Joyo 4 accompany, line up, join, group, clique tsureru, tsuraneru, REN 辶 車 Left: movement 辶, right: vehicle 車 (A hand-cart seen from above with axle 丨, loading area 日 and two wheels 二) In a moving vehicle I accompany the group of my clique.   過 JLPT 2Joyo 5 excessive, go beyond, overdo, exceed, error sugiru, ayamachi, KA 辶 骨 Left: movement 辶, right: vertebrae (pictograph cf. 骨, bone/skeleton) When the vertebrae move, an excessive overdo can be an error.   逆 JLPT 2Joyo 5 reverse, opposite, revolt sakarau, GYAKU 辶 屰 丷 Left: movement 辶, right: (Chinese only:) disobedient or opposing 屰 (out of 丷, one 一, var. of mountain 山 with one middle peak up- and downwards ノ When the peaks of moving mountains are in different directions, it stands for: "reverse"   述 JLPT 2Joyo 5 narrate, express, tell, mention, relate noberu, JUTSU 辶 Left: movement 辶, right: 术 (tree 木 with a mark 丶) The marked tree moves and wants to narrate something.   造 JLPT 2Joyo 5 manufacture, make, build, create tsukuru, ZŌ 辶 告 牛 Left: movement 辶, right: proclaim, tell, announce 告 (The cow 牛 opens the mouth 口 to announce sth.) Announcing with a movement that something shall be manufactured.   退 JLPT 2Joyo 5 retreat, withdraw, resign, retire shirizoku/keru, TAI 辶 艮 Left: movement 辶, right: not good 艮 ('good' would be 良, but here the accent 丶 is missing, thus 'not good') The movement is 'Not good' if it means to retreat.   適 JLPT 2Joyo 5 suitable, fit, agree TEKI 辶 帝 古 Left: movement 辶, right: old emperor (combination of emperor 帝 and old 古) The old emperor moves suitable and fitting.   導 JLPT 2Joyo 5 guide, conduct, lead michibiku, DŌ 辶 首 寸 Top: way, street 道 (The movement 辶 of heads 首 on the street. [head 首 = eye 目 with bushy eyebrows 丷] ), below: skillful hand 寸 On this way a skillful hand will guide us.   迷 JLPT 2Joyo 5 perplexed, astray, hesitate, to err, lost mayou, MEI 辶 米 Left: movement 辶, right: rice 米 (Here: From a central point it radiates into eight directions.) Who moves (from the center) into eight directions is astrayed and perplex.   遺 JLPT 1Joyo 6 bequeath, leave behind, lose, vestiges I, YUI 辶 貴 中 貝 Left: movement 辶, right: valuable 貴 (In the middle 中 is one 一 with money 貝, who is valuable.) In the movement, valuables were left behind.   違 JLPT 2Joyo 7 difference, differ chigau, I 辶 韋 Left: movement 辶, right: averted from the center 韋 (var. of 5 五, center 口, 5 五 (upside down)= twice five averted from center The movement five-fold away from the center makes the difference (and is admirable 偉).   逸 JLPT 1Joyo 7 deviate, go astray, escape, avert, idleness, miss the mark soreru/rasu, ITSU 辶 免 ⺈ Left: movement 辶, right: escape, permit 免 (an escaping rabbit 兔=兎=[うさぎ] - long ear ⺈, two big eyes 罒, legs 儿) The zig-zag-escape-movement of a rabbit is deviating.   還 JLPT 1Joyo 7 return, restore KAN 辶 罒 哀 Left: movement 辶, right: eye 罒, var. of sorrow 哀 (= Clothes 衣 with a big hole 口 causes sorrow.) The eyes show sorrow (i.e. about where we are) and thus we need a movement of return.   遇 JLPT 1Joyo 7 meet, encounter, to handle, entertain, see, to deal with GŪ 辶 禺 虫 Left: movement 辶, right: scorpion 禺 (pictograph of a scorpion: carapace 田 of the insect 虫 with long legs 冂) (A mating/courtship ritual?) Movements of a scorpion to meet someone. (And then they 亻,禺 became accidentially a pair 偶)   迎 JLPT 2Joyo 7 greet, welcome, meet, invite mukaeru, GEI 辶 卬 卩 Left: movement 辶, right: 卬 ([at the left] an odd person 人 bowing down 卩 deeply [at the right]) The movement of an odd person bowing down deeply is a: Greeting.   遣 JLPT 1Joyo 7 dispatch, send, use, donate, undertake tsukau, yaru, KEN 辶 中 Left: movement 辶, right: center 中, one 一, buttocks (picture!) From our center (= group) one buttocks shall move: for the dispatching.   込 JLPT 2Joyo 7 crowd, be filled, in a bulk, put in, include komu/meru, 辶 入 Left: movement 辶, right: to enter 入 (The person 人 retracts his head to enter.) When entering, the movements cause a crowd.   遮 JLPT 1Joyo 7 intercept, obstruct, interrupt saegiru, SHA 辶 广 革 廿 灬 Left: movement 辶, right: common, various 庶 (In a building 广 the objects 廿 on the fire 灬 are various) - Here: 廿 as the horns of animals, cf.: leather 革 (No free-range livestock): We have the stable/hutch 广 for the animals (horns 廿 and 4 legs 灬) such that their movement is: intercepted / interrupted.   巡 JLPT 1Joyo 7 patrol, go around, circumference meguru, JUN 辶 巛 川 Left: movement 辶, right: 巛 (var. of river 川, here: the badge of rank of US-army sergeants) The movement of the US-sergeant is to tour his cycles during patrol.   遵 JLPT 1Joyo 7 obedience, follow rules, abide by, obey (a law) JUN 辶 酉 寸 Left: movement 辶, right: esteem, honor 尊 (Serving out of 丷 the wine mug 酉 with a skillful hand 寸 is honorific.) Honorific movements show your obedience.   迅 JLPT 1Joyo 7 rapid, fast, swift, intense hayai, JIN 辶 飛 十 Left: movement 辶, right: ten 十 and simplification of a crane (cf. to fly 飛) Ten cranes move rapidly.   遂 JLPT 1Joyo 7 achieve, accomplish, attain, realize, commit (suicide) tsui, togeru, SUI 辶 丷 豕 Combination of: chasing 逐 [The pig 豕 (=豚), moves 辶, when you chase it] and: 'out of' 丷 (here 丷 as a goal marked by two poles 丷) The chasing into the goal 丷 is: "accomplishing and achieving".   随 JLPT 1Joyo 7 follow, comply, notwithstanding ZUI 阝 辶 有 From left: hill 阝, movement 辶, have, exist 有 (I have a hand and a body 月, thus: I'm existing!) (It is the gravity:) At the hill exists a (downward) movement, which (everything) follows.   髄 JLPT 1Joyo 7 marrow (inside a bone), medulla, inner core ZUI 骨 辶 有 From left: bone 骨 (from top: pictograph of a vertebra, body/flesh 肉/月), movement 辶, have, exist 有 (I have a hand and a body 月, thus: I'm existing!) Within the bones it exists and it can be "moved" out: the marrow.   逝 JLPT 1Joyo 7 die, death, deceased, departed yuku, SEI 辶 折 斤 Left: movement 辶, right: to break 折 (A hand 扌 with an axe 斤 can make things break.) If the movement breaks, you die.   遷 JLPT 1Joyo 7 transition, shift, move, transfer, change utsuru, SEN 辶 西 己 Left: movement 辶, right: west 西, big 大, I/myself 己 A movement in the west by the "Big Self" (= western egoism), means a real transition.   遭 JLPT 1Joyo 7 encounter, meet, associate, join au, SŌ 辶 曹 艹 曲 Left: movement 辶, right: companion 曹 (Such that ground 一 is broken up by 2 sprouts 曲 in the field 田, the sun 日 is needed: and a caring companion.) Companions need to move, if they want to encounter.   逮 JLPT 1Joyo 7 apprehend, chase, seize, catch up TAI 辶 隶 尹 Left: movement 辶, right: to catch 隶 (a hand ヨ/ and an animal [e.g. cat] with a tail 丨 and four extremities/limb spreading away from the body.) When the hand seizes the tail of the animal in one movement, it has caught it.   遅 JLPT 2Joyo 7 slow, late, tardy, later okureru, osoi, CHI 辶 尸 羊 Left: movement 辶, right: buttock from the side 尸, sheep 羊 (The horned 丷 animal with a backbone 丨 and laterally protruding due to thick wool 三 is a sheep) You move like the buttock of a sheep: too late and so slow.   逐 JLPT 1Joyo 7 chase, pursue, one after another ou, CHIKU 辶 豕 Left: movement 辶, right: pig 豕 (cf. 豚) The pigs move when you chase them.   逓 JLPT 1Joyo 7 in sequence, relay, communication, gradually TEI 辶 厂 二 巾 Left: movement 辶, right: shield 厂, two 二 cloth 巾 Move the shield and then two layers of cloth, that's the sequence.   迭 JLPT 1Joyo 7 transfer, change, alternation, reshuffle TETSU 辶 失 夫 Left: movement 辶, right: lose/disappear 失 (I emphasize ノ (= accent) it is the husband 夫 who will lose.) [husband 夫 = big 大 person with extra-caring arms 一] (Think of a pendulum) There is a loss in movement (momentum) in the transfer/change.   途 JLPT 2Joyo 7 route, road, way TO 辶 余 Left: movement 辶, right: excess, rest, remain 余 (A heap is on an altar 示 [=to show] in excess.) Movement in abundance on this route.   逃 JLPT 2Joyo 7 escape, evade, run away nigeru/gasu, nogareru/su, TŌ 辶 兆 Left: movement 辶, right: sign/omen 兆 (But here as an image of radiating outwardly from a center in all directions) Movements in all different directions is a sign of escape.   透 JLPT 1Joyo 7 transparent, permeate, clear, translucent suku/kasu/keru, TŌ 辶 秀 禾 乃 Left: movement 辶, right: excellent 秀 (= A rice plant 禾 plump like a 'pregnancy belly' 乃 is excellent.) (The praise because he cleaned the windows for the first time in 10 years:) Excellent, this movement, and it became transparent again.   迫 JLPT 1Joyo 7 urge, oppress, force, push, imminent semaru, HAKU 辶 白 Left: movement 辶, right: white 白 (The shine ノ of the sun 日 makes it white.) (The Imperialism came from Europe:) This "white" movement has urged and oppressed.   避 JLPT 1Joyo 7 evade, avoid, ward off, avert sakeru, HI 辶 辟 辛 Left: movement 辶, right: anal penetration/torture 辟 (buttock from the side 尸, anus 口 with needle 辛 as symbol for penetration or torture) Movements which mean torture should be evaded.   遍 JLPT 1Joyo 7 everywhere, widely used, universally amaneku, HEN 辶 扁 戸 冊 Left: movement 辶, right: door plate 扁 (= a door 戸 with a writing tablet 冊) Movable door plates are everywhere.   縫 JLPT 1Joyo 7 sew, stitch, embroider nuu, HŌ 糸 辶 夆 夂 From left: thread 糸, movement 辶, pointed, needle-shaped 夆 (When sitting cross-legged 夂 on the peak of a growing plant 丰, you feel it pointed. ) The thread gets pointed (= provided with a pointed needle) and is moved when: sewing.   遡 JLPT -Joyo 7 go upstream, reverse movement sakanoboru, SO 辶 屰 肉 Left: reverse, opposite 逆 [movement 辶 out 丷 to the 一 mountain 山 and downwards ノ movements are reversed], right: body part 月/肉 If you reverse your body, you go backwards: upstream.   遜 JLPT -Joyo 7 modest, humble SON 辶 子 系 From left: movement 辶, child 子, system, lineage 系 (A stroke ノ as the thread 糸 of the lineage.) With this movement you make yourself a child and systematically show your modesty.   謎 JLPT -Joyo 7 riddle, puzzle, enigma nazo, 言 辶 米 Left: word 言, right: astray, illusion 迷 (Who moves 辶 [from a center] into eight 米 directions is astrayed and perplex.) The words are astraying in a riddle.
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