Origin

This character combines the hand radical on the left with the character for "walk" or "steps" on the right. The idea is that progress happens through the motion of walking — just as your feet move forward step by step, work or a project advances through continuous action. By pairing the hand (representing action or work) with the concept of forward movement, the character came to mean "make progress" or "move forward steadily."

AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Compound ideographic (combined meanings).