⾡

RADICAL WALK

X2FA1 ⾡ is Unicode character number 12193, RADICAL WALK, Radical 162, KanjiRadical.
⾡ uses 3 bytes: %e2%be%a1 ; 226 190 161 in the decimal representation.

⾡ or 辵

⾡ can be pronounced Shinnyou, しんにょう and may refer to advance, move ahead .

X2FA1 ⾡ is easy to confuse with character X8FB5 辵 (LIBERAL WALK), that has similar pic, similar pronunciation and similar meaning.
Both X2FA1 ⾡ and X8FB5 辵 are qualified as Radical 162 , related to the radical walk (that seems to be analogy of the RADICAL WALK) and characters ⻍, ⻌ and ⻎, that appear as "transforms" (id est, synonyms) of Radical 162.

⾡ or WalkU: Car advances through water

WalkU

There are 5 Unicode characters, that are synonyms of X2FA1 ⾡ and X8FB5 辵:

SIMPLIFIED WALK WALK ONE WALK TWO

X2ECC ⻌ , KanjiRadical, Walk0, SIMPLIFIED WALK

X2ECD ⻍ , KanjiRadical, Walk1, WALK ONE

X2ECE ⻎ , KanjiRadical, Walk2, WALK TWO

X8FB6 辶 , KanjiLiberal, Walk3

XFA66 辶 , KanjiConfudal, Walk4

Set of the five Unicode characters above is denoted with term WalkU.
Word WalkU by itself also can be treated as synonym of X2FA1 ⾡ and X8FB5 辵.

Pics

Comparison of similar characters X2FA1 ⾡ , X8FB5 辵 is shown below.

⾡,辵 This way they look at your computer

this way they look with the Macintosh default font and at Linux default font. This is not so usual case, when similar characters look the same both at Linux and at Macintosh. More often is situation, when default view of similar characters depends on the operational system.

Pic of character X2FA1 ⾡ (and that of X8FB5 辵) looks as combination of pictures of the following characters:
X2F3A ⼺ or X5F61 彡 at the top
and
X2523 ┣ at the center
and
X2ECC ⻌ or X2ECD ⻍ or X2ECE ⻎ or X8FB6 辶 or XFA66 辶 at the bottom and left.
In such a way, pic of 辵 can be constructed from three other kanjis by at least 10 different ways.

Confuse

In century 21, the computer support of characters of Japanese is underdeveloped.
Up to year 2021, there is no united standard for the default font, that would allow each character to look the same at various computers, but different from other characters.
Apparently, the opposite cases take place: the character looks different with the default font of different operational systems, but similar to other characters at the same computer. This causes confuses.

In particular, this refers to character X2FA1 ⾡.

Characters X2FA1 ⾡, X8FB5 辵 cause confusion. Evan a native Japanese speaker, watching ⾡, 辵, is unlikely to answer:
Which of them is X2FA1?
Which of them is X8FB5?

Characre ⾡ is qualified as Chinese and 辵 as Japanese ; it could specify citizenship of a walker (Chinese or Japanese), or the country (China or Japan) where the walk is performed. However, these characters look similar; looking at such a character, it is difficult to guess, is it Chinese or Japanese kanji.

Characters ⾡ and 辵 can be distinguished with PHP program du1.t, using command

php du1.t ⾡辵

but this identification allows down the reading.

Neither ⾡ nor 辵 is allowed in Tarja.

Tarja

Due to the confusion with graphic presentation of characters X2FA1 ⾡ and X8FB5 辵, none of these kanjis is allowed in Tarja. Character X2FA1 ⾡ can be translated into Tarja in the following ways:

Shinnyou or しんにょう, to refer to street, movement, or advance.

Shinnyuu or しんじゅう, naka, なか, kimasu, きます, to refers to entry, penetration, coming in.

WalkU, if any of the above

Chyakubu or ちゃくぶ (to indicate the graphical aspect of picture of this term)

SIMPLIFIED WALK to indicate the easy movement

WALK ONE or WALK TWO to indicate number of advanceing persons

X2FA1, or RADICAL WALK to distinguish it from character X8FB5 辵.

As usually, there is ambiguity, many options at the translation of word from one language to another. Similar ambiguity appears at the inverse translation, see Tarja-Japanese. But within Tarja, there is no ambiguity; all elements of Tarja are visually distinguishable, identifiable from their pics.

Gallery

This article is based on the descriptions of character X2FA1⾡ in dictionaries and other sites (rather than on the appearance in the literature or in the causal talking). On the base of the descriptions, the relative images had been searched. Some of them are collected below.

References

Keywords

Confuse, Japanese, Kanji, KanjiConfudal, KanjiLiberal, KanjiRadical, LIBERAL WALK, RADICAL WALK, Radical 162, Tarja, Unicode, X2FA1 ⾡ , X8FB5 辵 ,,