往

See also: 徃 and 住

往 U+5F80, 往 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5F80 ← 彿 [U+5F7F] CJK Unified Ideographs 征 → [U+5F81]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

往 (Kangxi radical 60, 彳+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹人卜土 (HOYG), four-corner 2021₄, composition ⿰彳主)

Derived characters

• 𠉫, 𠗤, 𢛛, 𣶂, 暀, 𥆜, 𫃮, 𬻯, 𭈕, 𥯂, 𮤵, 𤷮

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 365, character 32
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10073
• Dae Jaweon: page 685, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 817, character 6
• Unihan data for U+5F80

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		往
alternative forms		徃

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 往
Shang	Western Zhou	Spring and Autumn	Warring States		Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Ancient script	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (往) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
暀	*ɢʷaŋs, *ɢʷaŋʔ, *ɢʷaŋs
誑	*kʷaŋs, *ɡʷaŋ, *kʷaŋs
枉	*qʷaŋʔ
往	*ɢʷaŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɢʷaŋ) : semantic 彳 + phonetic 𡉚 ().

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-wa-ŋ (“to go; to come”). Cognate with Burmese ဝင် (wang, “to come in; to enter”), Tibetan འོང ('ong, “to come”), ཡོང (yong, “to come”). Related to 于 (OC *ɢʷa, “to go”).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 往

1. to go to; to head for

   往返  ―  wǎngfǎn  ―  to travel to and fro

2. past; previous

   往事 (wǎngshì, “past events”)

   往昔 (wǎngxī, “in the past”)

3. to; towards

   我往右拐的。  ―  Wǒ wǎng yòu guǎi de.  ―  I turned right.

   不要往河裡扔石頭。 [MSC, trad.]
   不要往河里扔石头。 [MSC, simp.]

   Bùyào wǎng hé lǐ rēng shítóu. [Pinyin]

   Don't throw rocks into the river.

   他們往小鎮方向去了。 [MSC, trad.]
   他们往小镇方向去了。 [MSC, simp.]

   Tāmen wǎng xiǎo zhèn fāngxiàng qù le. [Pinyin]

   They made their way toward the town.

Synonyms

• 向 (xiàng)

References

• “往”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

往

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: おう (ō, Jōyō)^{←わう (wau, historical)}
• Kan-on: おう (ō, Jōyō)^{←わう (wau, historical)}
• Kun: いく (iku, 往く)、いにしえ (inishie, 往)、さきに (sakini, 往に)、ゆく (yuku, 往く)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
往
おう Grade: 5
on'yomi

*/waŋ/ → /wau/ → /ɔː/ → /oː/

From Middle Chinese 往 (MC hjwangX).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [o̞ː]

Affix

往(おう) • (ō) ^{←わう (wau)?}

1. to go to, to head for
2. past, previous

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Korean

Hanja

往 (eumhun 갈 왕 (gal wang))

1. hanja form^? of 왕 (“to go to”)

Compounds

• 왕래 (往來, wangnae, “traffic, coming and going”)
• 왕년 (往年, wangnyeon, “former, once”)
• 왕복 (往復, wangbok, “a round trip, going back and forth”)

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Vietnamese

Han character

往: Hán Nôm readings: vãng, vạng, vảng, vởn, váng, vãn

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References

• Nom Foundation