往 – journey, travel, chase away

8 strokesTaught in grade 5#1421 in newspaper frequencyN2 vocabulary

The kanji 往 means journey, travel, chase away, let go, going, before, formerly. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is オウ (ou); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is い.く、いにしえ、さき.に、ゆ.く (iku, inishie, sakini, yuku). It is written with 8 strokes, under radical 彳 (no. 60).

Stroke order

Stroke order from KanjiVG. Practise others with the stroke order lookup.

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	オウ	ou
Kun’yomi	い.く	iku
Kun’yomi	いにしえ	inishie
Kun’yomi	さき.に	sakini
Kun’yomi	ゆ.く	yuku

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 彳 (Kangxi radical 60). Components: 王・丶・彳.

Words using 往

往復おうふくmaking a round trip往診おうしんdoctor's visit

Example sentences

往復ですか、片道ですか。

Round trip or one-way?

Tatoeba #188543

医者は午後６軒往診した。

The doctor made six house calls in the afternoon.

Tatoeba #190827

Kanji with the same radical

後得役待復従彼徒徴徹律御徳微径徐

Sources: KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0), KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0), Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). About the data.