IDENTITY
跑pǎoto run
HSK 1Top 300
CORE MEANING
to run
- Part of speech
- verb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.to runHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 足foot radical (zú)
- strokes
- 12
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰𧾷包
- foot
- gives the sound pǎo (historical)
- part of the structure
USAGE
Common words
跑步pǎobùto jog
跑道pǎodàorunning track
Graded examples
我每天早上去跑步。Wǒ měitiān zǎoshang qù pǎobù.HSK2
I go jogging every morning.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 抱
LEARNING
Memory aid
Feet (足) wrapping up (包) the miles — running.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #300
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
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