跑pǎo
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跑
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Shuowen
跑. The character pairs the foot radical 足 with the phonetic 包, originally depicting a foot kicking or stamping in oracle bone script; the earliest meaning was “to tread” or “to kick”, later generalized to “to run”.
Pinyin
pǎo· HSK 2