行
row / line / commercial firm / line of business / profession / to rank (first, second etc) among one's siblings (by age) / (in data tables) row / (Tw) column
to walk / to go / to travel / a visit / temporary / makeshift / current / in circulation / to do / to perform / capable / competent / effective / all right / OK! / will do / behavior / conduct / Taiwan pr. [xing4] for the behavior-conduct sense
行 character breakdown
step with the right foot / see 彳亍[chi4 chu4]
亍
=
一
+
丁
:
Mnemonic symbol: a step with the right foot is a kick of a righteous knight, who wears a full armor boot on his right foot.
Someone is playing music on a flute (一) for Chantal Chicken (chu) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) so that she can practice pole dancing on a huge nail (丁). She's working on her step with the right foot (亍) while wearing a full armor boot (mnemonic symbol for 亍).
Someone is playing music on a flute (一) for Chantal Chicken (chu) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) so that she can practice pole dancing on a huge nail (丁). She's working on her step with the right foot (亍) while wearing a full armor boot (mnemonic symbol for 亍).
step with the left foot (Kangxi radical 60) / see also 彳亍[chi4 chu4]
彳
=
丿
+
亻
:
Mnemonic symbol for the step with the left foot: a black sneaker, because black sneakers are popular at least with the leftists I met.
Rosa Luxemburg (亻) just finished her banana (丿) and throws the peel over her shoulder in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). Charlie Chaplin (彳), wearing a black sneaker on his left foot, manages to step on the banana peel with his left foot and fall over even in zero gravity.
Rosa Luxemburg (亻) just finished her banana (丿) and throws the peel over her shoulder in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). Charlie Chaplin (彳), wearing a black sneaker on his left foot, manages to step on the banana peel with his left foot and fall over even in zero gravity.
Characters with 行 as component
to spread out / to develop / to overflow / to amplify / superfluous
bit (of a bridle) / to hold in the mouth / to harbor (feelings) / to link / to accept / rank / title
衔
=
行
+
钅
:
When Marie Curie (xi) goes to war she always puts on her seven-league boots (行) in the anthill's kitchen (an2), puts her golden harpoon (钅) into her mouth like the bit of a bridle (衔) and gets going. For being so fast at the battle field she has been awarded a very high rank (衔) and a special title (衔).
Words with 行
obstinately clinging to one's course (idiom) / willful / one's own way / dogmatic
think again and again before acting (idiom); consider carefully in advance
think three times then go (idiom); don't act before you've thought it through carefully
If three walk together, one of them can teach me sth (Confucius)
lit. if three walk together, one can be my teacher (idiom, from the Analects of Confucius) / you have sth to learn from everyone