运 yùn
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 辶 — to walk
- Made of
- 辶 to walk 云 cloud
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
运行
yùnxíng
to run; to operate
Characters in this word
行 xíng
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 行 — to go, to walk, to move
- Made of
- 彳 to step with the left foot 亍 to take small steps
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 车正常运行。 Chē zhèngcháng yùnxíng. The vehicle runs normally.
- 机器在运行。 Jīqì zài yùnxíng. The machine is running.
- 地铁运行了。 Dìtiě yùnxíng le. The subway has started running.