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跑 — stroke order

pǎo
ㄆㄠˇ
Meaning
to run
Strokes
12
Radical
Practise 跑 in the full tool →

Watch how to write (pǎo) stroke by stroke. 跑 has 12 strokes and means “to run”. It appears in common words such as 跑步 (to walk quickly) and 奔跑 (to run). The animation follows the correct Chinese stroke order inside a 米字格 practice grid — tap the cell or the ↺ button to replay it.

Common words with 跑

The most common words that use 跑 — tap any word to draw it stroke by stroke in the full tool.

跑步pǎobùto walk quickly奔跑bēnpǎoto run逃跑táopǎoto flee from sth跑車pǎochēracing bicycle跑調pǎodiàoto be off-key or out of tune賽跑sàipǎorace

How 跑 is written

Radical
Components
Formation
Pictophonetic character — formed from a semantic component 足 and a phonetic component 包 (foot).

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