Character · Actions
行
ゆく yukuいく ikuじっこう jikkōしゅぎょう shugyō
go, walk
Composition
Origin
A pictogram of a crossroads, two ways meeting: to go, to move along.
In the thoughts
- 行くikuto travel
- 実行jikkōexecution
- 修行shugyōtraining
Proverbs carrying this character
- 122 百里を行く者は九十を半ばとす He who travels a hundred leagues counts ninety as halfway.
- 130 不言実行 Act without announcing.
- 200 人の一生は重荷を負うて遠き道を行くが如し A man's life is a long road walked under a burden; there is no need to hurry.
- 215 行く春や鳥啼き魚の目は泪 Departing spring — birds cry, and there are tears in the eyes of fish.
- 219 この道や行く人なしに秋の暮 This road — no one else walks it. Autumn evening.
- 303 実るまで待つのも修行 Waiting for ripening is also part of the training.