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跑 — to run; to run away; to escape

to run; to run away; to escape; to run around

Pinyin
pǎo · páo
Strokes
12
HSK level
HSK 2
Handwriting
recognition only

This character has more than one reading — pǎo, páo — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.

How to write 跑: 12 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

跑 — 12 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 跑 in the HSK syllabus: 8

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 跑pǎoto run; to run away; to escape; to run aroundHSK 2
  2. 跑步pǎobùto run; to jog; to march at the doubleHSK 2
  3. 跑道pǎodàoathletic track; track; runwayHSK 5
  4. 奔跑bēnpǎoto runHSK 6
  5. 逃跑táopǎoto flee from sth; to run away; to escapeHSK 6
  6. 跑龙套pǎo lóngtàoto play a small roleHSK 7–9
  7. 起跑线qǐpǎoxiànthe starting line; scratch lineHSK 7–9
  8. 赛跑sàipǎorace; to raceHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.