往

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

• 𠉫, 𠗤, 𢛛, 𣶂, 暀, 𥆜, 𫃮, 𬻯, 𭈕, 𥯂, 𮤵, 𤷮

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

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

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

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”).

往

1. to go to; to head for
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.

• 向 (xiàng)

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

• Go-on: おう (ō, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: おう (ō, Jōyō)
• Kun: いく (iku, 往く); いにしえ (inishie, 往); さきに (sakini, 往に); ゆく (yuku, 往く)

From Middle Chinese 往 (MC ɦʉɐŋ^X).

• On’yomi
  • IPA^(key): [o̞ː]

往 (hiragana おう, rōmaji ō, historical hiragana わう)

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

往 • (wang) (hangeul 왕, revised wang, McCune–Reischauer wang, Yale wang)

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往 (vãng, vạng, vảng, vởn, váng, vãn)

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