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跑步

pǎo bù 3–4

to run; to jog; (military) to march at the double

HSK level
HSK 3
HSK 2.0 level 2 · HSK 3.0 level 3
Characters
2
跑 · 步
Syllables
2
pǎo bù
Frequency
Less common
corpus count 7,199

Part of speech: v

Character by character

  • 跑pǎo12 strokesHSK 1run, flee, leave in hurry
  • 步bù7 strokesHSK 2step, pace; walk, stroll

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 我每天跑步。

    Wǒ měi tiān pǎo bù

    I run every day.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 跑步. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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