Chinese symbol for “pursue”
奉行
fèng xíng
to pursue (a course, a policy)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for pursue is 奉行 (fèng xíng), defined as: to pursue (a course, a policy).
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “pursue”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 追捕 | zhuī bǔ | to pursue; to be after |
| 追寻 (追尋) | zhuī xún | to pursue; to track down |
| 追赶 (追趕) | zhuī gǎn | to pursue; to chase after |
| 逐 | zhú | (bound form) to pursue; to chase; to drive away; one by one; individually |
| 追缉 (追緝) | zhuī jī | to pursue; to be after |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 奉行.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 奉献 (奉獻) | fèng xiàn | to offer respectfully; to consecrate |
| 信奉 | xìn fèng | belief; to believe (in sth) |
| 供奉 | gòng fèng | to consecrate; to enshrine and worship |
| 奉命 | fèng mìng | to receive orders; to follow orders |
| 奉承 | fèng cheng | to fawn on; to flatter |
| 进行 (進行) | jìn xíng | (of a process etc) to proceed; to be in progress; to be underway; (of people) to carry out; to conduct (an investigation or discussion etc) |
| 举行 (舉行) | jǔ xíng | to hold (a meeting, ceremony etc) |
| 行为 (行為) | xíng wéi | action; conduct; behavior; activity |
See also: Japanese symbol for “pursue”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.