Walk

On’yomi: ほ、ぶ、ふ
Kun’yomi: ある、あゆ
Radical: 止 Stop (Kangxi 77)

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 太 (Fat), less common than 呼 (Call).

Stop (stop) sits on top and small (small) steps below — you stop, then take small steps forward, one tiny foot at a time — this is how you walk carefully.

In words

歩くあるく to walkN5

歩ふ pawn (in chess or shogi)N1

歩むあゆむ to walk;to go on footN1

歩 is rank 314 of 2,608 in published Japanese.

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