mài

take a big stride

To take ten thousand  steps 

Components
辶 meaning component

  Meaning component

chuò

  

walk

萬 meaning component

  Meaning component

wàn

  

ten thousand

Evolution

邁 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
邁 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
邁 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
邁 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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mài

take a big stride; pass by; to take a step; to stride

Most common words with 邁
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to stride

迈阿密

Miami (Florida)

迈克尔

Michael (name)

迈出

to step out

迈进

to step in

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*mˤrat-s

maejH

mài

proceed, march


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 15.2491% of movies

1102nd most common character in movies

1698th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

Unicode

U+9081

Shuowen

“邁,遠行也。从辵,蠆省聲。,邁或不省。”


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