Chinese Character Wiki
廴

yǐn

walk

Derived from 彳, which depicts a street intersection. The last stroke is lengthen to indicate the meaning "walk" or "long stride".

Evolution

廴 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
廴 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

廴  

yǐn

go; KangXi radical 54; "long stride" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 54), occurring in 建, 延, 廷 etc

Component uses

Meaning component in 3 characters (2 verified)

延 廷 㢟

Iconic component in 1 character (1 verified)

建

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

2

Unicode

U+5EF4

Shuowen

“廴，長行也。从彳引之。”


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