Follow Radical (夂) — Characters, Meaning and Practice Worksheet
夂 is the follow radical. It appears in 11 of the most common Chinese characters — these 11 are the ones worth learning first, and the worksheet below gives every one of them a pinyin header, a stroke-by-stroke model and blank Tianzige grids to copy into.
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What does 夂 mean?
Follow radical · 夂 zhǐ · 3 strokes · to follow; to go slowly
As a radical it is called 折文 (zhé wén).
It usually appears at the top or bottom of the character. The Origin column below shows what each character's parts do — many take their meaning from the radical, some take their sound from the other half.
Shapes: 夂
11 common characters with 夂
Ranked by how often they appear in real written Chinese. Every character links to its own page with a stroke-order animation and example words.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning | Origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| 处 | chù | place; department | To go somewhere 夂 and put down a flag 卜 |
| 各 | gè | each | Walking 夂 and talking 口 |
| 条 | tiáo | [measure word for things of a long and thin shape (e.g. string and river), pieces of writing (e.g. news, suggestions and regulations), or human life] | |
| 务 | wù | affair; business; matter; to be engaged in; to attend to; by all means | |
| 备 | bèi | get ready; prepare against; be available, be equipped with | To go 夂 to the farm 田 to prepare for a harvest |
| 复 | fù | again | A person 亻 who goes somewhere 夂 every day 日 |
| 夏 | xià | summer | |
| 冬 | dōng | winter | A man walking 夂 on ice ⺀ |
| 隆 | lóng | sound of drums | |
| 麦 | mài | wheat | Simplified form of 麦; grains 來 ready to be harvested 夂 |
| 傻 | shǎ | foolish | A man 亻 being hit 夂 on the head 囟 |
Related Radicals
- 囗Enclosure radical · wéi13 common characters · an enclosure; walls all around
- 土Earth radical · tǔ59 common characters · earth, soil
- 士Scholar radical · shì8 common characters · scholar
- 夕Evening radical · xī10 common characters · evening; sunset
- 大Big radical · dà24 common characters · big, large
- 女Woman radical · nǚ33 common characters · woman, female
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