往
往 character breakdown
owner / master / host / individual or party concerned / God / Lord / main / to indicate or signify / trump card (in card games)
step with the left foot (Kangxi radical 60) / see also 彳亍[chi4 chu4]
彳
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丿
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亻
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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 往 as component
往
is not used as a component in another character.
Words with 往
lit. proper behavior is based on reciprocity (idiom) / fig. to return politeness for politeness
to follow the past and herald the future (idiom); part of a historical transition / forming a bridge between earlier and later stages
to observe the past to foresee the future (idiom, taken loosely from Book of Songs); studying ancient wisdom gives insight into what is to come
lit. to meet those arriving, to send of those departing (idiom); busy entertaining guests / all time taken over with social niceties