跑 (pǎo) — Chinese Character

跑

pǎo

to run; to run away; to flee; to run around (on errands etc); to run (a machine); (páo) (of an animal) to paw (the ground)

Radical: 足 HSK 1 v pictophonetic

Components & Etymology

跑 decomposes into the following components:

足包

Semantic component: 足; phonetic component: 包.

Common multi-character words and phrases that include 跑.

乱跑

luàn pǎo

to run wildly all over the place

偷跑

tōu pǎo

助跑

zhù pǎo

吓跑

xià pǎo

夜跑

yè pǎo

奔跑

bēn pǎo

to run

小跑

xiǎo pǎo

慢跑

màn pǎo

jogging

打跑

dǎ pǎo

to run off rebuffed

抢跑

qiǎng pǎo

to jump the gun

晨跑

chén pǎo

短跑

duǎn pǎo

sprint (race)

Characters that share the radical 足.

Practice this character with stroke-order training, spaced repetition, and reading passages across all HSK levels.