往

往 (Kangxi 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 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

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

Originally phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɢʷaŋ) : semantic 止 (“foot”) + phonetic 王 (OC *ɢʷaŋ, *ɢʷaŋs). Later 彳 was added to form phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɢʷaŋ) : semantic 彳 (“walk”) + semantic 止 (“foot”) + phonetic 王 (OC *ɢʷaŋ, *ɢʷaŋs).

The 止 and 王 have since fused into 㞷 and now 主.

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

   往返  ―  wǎngfǎn  ―  to travel to and from

2. to; towards

   上海飛往北京的航班 [MSC, trad.]
   上海飞往北京的航班 [MSC, simp.]

   Shànghǎi fēi wǎng Běijīng de hángbān [Pinyin]

   a flight from Shanghai to Beijing

   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.

3. past; previous

   往事  ―  wǎngshì  ―  past events

   往昔  ―  wǎngxī  ―  in the past

• 向 (xiàng)

往

1. (Hakka) towards
   • 2019 December 13, “徙”, 陳美燕 [Mei-Yen Chen], 邱廉欽 [Kim Chiu], Uncle Willow, Regina Grounded (lyrics), 邱廉欽 [Kim Chiu] and 賴威成 [Andres Lai] (music)‎performed by 愛客樂 [iColor]:

     徙往下　過河壩　跋山崗　艱辛出外莊　再徙往出　過大江　尋一隻　有好耕種个地方 [Hailu Hakka, trad.]
     徙往下　过河坝　跋山岗　艰辛出外庄　再徙往出　过大江　寻一只　有好耕种个地方 [Hailu Hakka, simp.]

     sai´ gong` ha`, goˇ ho baˇ, bag san` gong`, gan` sin` chud ngoi⁺ zong`, zaiˇ sai´ gong` chud, goˇ tai⁺ gong`, cim rhid zhag rhiu` ho´ gang` zhungˇ gaiˇ ti⁺ fong` [Taiwanese Hakka Romanization System]

     Migrating down, crossing rivers, climbing mountains, going out of the village with difficulty; then migrating out, crossing big rivers to look for a place good for farming

It is used after a verb and before a directional term, such as 上 (“up”), 下 (“down”), 出 (“out”).

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

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

• 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)
• Nanori: おき (oki); なり (nari); ひさ (hisa); みち (michi); もち (mochi); ゆき (yuki); よし (yoshi)

*/waŋ/ → /wau/ → /ɔː/ → /oː/

From Middle Chinese 往 (MC hjwangX).

• IPA^(key): [o̞ː]

往(おう) • (ō) ^{←わう (wau)?}

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

往 (eumhun 갈 왕 (gal wang))

1. Hanja form^? of 왕 (“to go to”).

• 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”)

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

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