步

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇨🇳🇯🇵🇰🇷

footstep

HSK 3

Human →Actions →Movement

bù

ホ、ブ、フ

あるく、あゆむ、あゆみ

보

Pictograph of one foot in front of another, depicting footsteps.

Components

止 stop+ 止 stop =

步 footstep

止 Iconic component

zhǐ stop

stop, halt, desist

止 Iconic component

zhǐ stop

stop, halt, desist

Notes

Historical Evolution

Oracle

(~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle

(~1250-1000 BC)

Bronze

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze

Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Seal

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

步

Regular

Modern

Chinese

步 [Bù]

surname Bu

步 [bù]

a step; a pace; walk; march; stages in a process; situation

Japanese

歩ほ同音

noun step; stride
counter counter for steps

歩ぶ同音

noun bu; (explanation) traditional unit of area, approx. 3.31 square metres
noun commission; percentage
n-suf exactly; precisely (following a unit of area (e.g. 町, 段, 畝))

歩ふ同音

noun shogi abbrev. pawn

Example Sentences

🇯🇵 (2)

彼女に追いつくために私は歩を速めた。

I quickened my steps to catch up with her.

３歩歩いてジャンプしなさい。

Take three steps and jump.