行

• Action and Process: Walking, traveling, or journeying; carrying out, implementing, or realizing (e.g., rituals, laws, or orders); conduct, behavior, or practice; circulation of goods, currency, or information.
• Structure and Alignment: A row, line, or rank (e.g., a line of text or military formation); trade, guilds, or professional sectors.
• Evaluation: Feasible, acceptable, or effective.

When denoting locomotion, the glyph is generally intransitive. When denoting execution or performance, it is strongly transitive and typically followed by an object such as a plan, rite, or decree.

In ancient layers, contrast with 走, which typically denotes running or hurried flight; 行 serves as the general term for travel.

Meanings relating to professional guilds or business sectors are generally characteristic of later texts. The adjective sense of "feasible" or "acceptable" became increasingly common in later classical periods.

The glyph evokes a crossroads, providing the conceptual link between the act of traversing and the structure of the path or row itself.

Determine whether the context implies an action/process (read as xíng) or a structure/arrangement (read as háng).