Meaning & readings
follow, though, notwithstanding, while, during, both, all, obey, submit to, comply, at the mercy of (the waves)
Origin
This character most likely combines the idea of "following" through its components. The left side relates to movement or walking, while the right side suggests something that goes along or is responsive. The character's shape developed to picture the concept of moving along with something else or yielding to circumstances. Over time, this visual idea of one thing accompanying another came to mean "follow," "accompany," or broader senses like "during" or "though" — situations where one thing goes along with another.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Pictographic or simple.
Components
This character is treated as a single, undivided shape (随).
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 12
- Kangxi radical
- 170
- Grade
- Jōyō (secondary school)
- Frequency rank
- #1396 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 1
- Unicode
- U+0968F