The walk radical 辵

Read chuò, 7 strokes. It indexes 66 distinct HSK characters.

66HSK characters

7Strokes

#162Radical number

辵Glyph

Quick answer

What does the walk radical (辵) mean, and which characters use it?

Walk (辵, chuò) is Kangxi radical 162, and it usually marks a character whose meaning is connected to walk. 66 distinct HSK characters are filed under it, the most common being 过, 通, 道. When you meet a new character carrying 辵, expect its sense to touch walk and let the other component hint at the sound.

How this radical works inside a character

Most characters built on 辵 follow the meaning-plus-sound pattern: 辵 sits on one side to signal the walk sense, and a second component supplies the approximate pronunciation. So you are rarely memorizing a whole new shape, you are recognizing walk plus a part you may already read. The list below is in corpus-frequency order, so the characters you will actually meet first are at the top: learn them in this order and the rest of the walk-radical family gets easier as you go.

All 66 walk characters 66 characters

#	Char	Pīnyīn	Strokes	HSK 3.0	HSK 2.0
1	过	guò	6	1	3
2	通	tōng	10	2	3
3	道	dào	12	1	2
4	边	biān	5	1	2
5	进	jìn	7	1	2
6	运	yùn	7	2	2
7	造	zào	10	3	4
8	近	jìn	7	2	2
9	选	xuǎn	9	2	3
10	远	yuǎn	7	1	2
11	连	lián	7	3	4
12	迷	mí	9	3	5
13	退	tuì	9	3	5
14	达	dá	6	3	4
15	速	sù	10	3	4
16	遗	yí	12	4	5
17	这	zhè	7	1	1
18	送	sòng	9	1	2
19	追	zhuī	9	3	5
20	迫	pò	8	4	5
21	适	shì	9	2	4
22	遇	yù	12	4	3
23	途	tú	10	4	5
24	还	hái	7	1	2
25	述	shù	8	4	5
26	迹	jì	9	7-9	5
27	透	tòu	10	4	5
28	避	bì	16	4	5
29	迟	chí	7	4	3
30	违	wéi	7	5	5
31	迁	qiān	6	6	6
32	迎	yíng	7	2	2
33	逐	zhú	10	4	4
34	递	dì	10	4	5
35	逃	táo	9	5	5
36	遍	biàn	12	2	4
37	返	fǎn	7	5	5
38	邀	yāo	16	5	4
39	逼	bī	12	6	6
40	遭	zāo	14	6	6
41	迈	mài	6	7-9	6
42	遵	zūn	15	5	5
43	逢	féng	10	7-9	6
44	遮	zhē	14	7-9	6
45	逻	luó	11	5	5
46	迄	qì	6	7-9	6
47	逆	nì	9	7-9	·
48	逊	xùn	9	7-9	6
49	逞	chěng	10	7-9	·
50	逮	dǎi	11	7-9	6
51	遣	qiǎn	13	7-9	6
52	遥	yáo	13	7-9	6
53	迅	xùn	6	4	5
54	逛	guàng	10	4	4
55	辽	liáo	5	7-9	6
56	巡	xún	6	7-9	6
57	迪	dí	8	7-9	·
58	迭	dié	8	7-9	·
59	逗	dòu	10	7-9	5
60	逝	shì	10	7-9	6
61	逸	yì	11	7-9	·
62	逾	yú	12	7-9	·
63	遂	suì	12	7-9	·
64	遏	è	12	7-9	6
65	遛	liù	13	7-9	·
66	迸	bèng	9	·	6

tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 neutral Order = corpus frequency, most common first · · = not in that scheme

Strokes and radical assignment come from the Unicode Han Database (Unicode 17.0.0, field kRSUnicode); the HSK levels and the frequency order are computed from the shipped HSK word lists. A small number of characters have a contested radical across dictionaries; the primary Unicode analysis is used throughout. Last verified 2026-07-24. See the full radical explorer or the characters-per-level reference.

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