Meaning
a row; profession; professional; all right; capable; competent
Chinese: 行走、可以；也表示行业。
Hear the Four Tones
The same syllable “xing” becomes a different word in each tone. 行 is the 2nd tone. Tap any tone to hear a native voice and see its pitch shape.
Stroke Order
Tap Animate to watch the strokes in order, or Practice to trace it yourself.
Common Words
- 进行jìn xíng(of a process etc) to proceed; to be in progress; to be underway; (of people) to carry out
- 行动xíng dòngoperation; action; to move about; mobile
- 行为xíng wéiaction; conduct; behavior; activity
- 银行yín hángbank
- 举行jǔ xíngto hold (a meeting, ceremony etc)
Example Sentence
步行去学校只要十分钟。Bù xíng qù xué xiào zhǐ yào shí fēn zhōng.It takes only ten minutes to walk to school.
步行Bù xíngto go on foot去qùto go学校xué xiàoschool只要zhǐ yàoso long as十分shí fēnvery钟zhōnghandleless cup。
Go deeper
Where this character comes from
A pictograph of a crossroads seen from above. It means ‘to walk, to go, to be OK’ (xíng); read háng it means ‘a row, a line of business, a firm’.
A way to remember it
A crossroads you walk through — to go, to be OK.