跑

páo
#862 most
frequent character
(of an animal) to paw (the ground)

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

跑 puts 𧾷, leg or foot, with 包 bāo, which supplies the sound. Its earliest sense was an animal pawing the ground with its feet. The word for running was then borrowed purely for its sound, and from 'run' came 'run away'.

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Same Characters, Different Readings

跑pǎo
run

Homophones

刨páo
to excavate
炮páo
to prepare herbal medicine by roasting or parching (in a pan)

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