Today’s #kanji is #徒, which is listed under the radical of #ぎょうにんべん（彳）. But according to my 大修館書店漢和辞典, its semantic element is 辵, which is the original form of #しんにょう with the meaning of “going and stopping,” and its phonetic element is 土, which has the meaning of soil. So can you guess what it means?
Meaning: walking, in vain
Reading: ト、あだ*、いたずら*、かち*、ただ*、むだ*
徒歩（トホ）: n. walking, going on foot
徒労（トロウ）: n. wasted effort, lost labour, a vain attempt
信徒（シント）: n. a believer, a follower
生徒（セイト）: n. a student (usually Years 7 to 12)
unlisted readings
徒（あだ）: なadj. empty, useless, frivolous
徒（いたずら）に: adv. in vain, vainly, for mothing
御徒町（おかちまち）: n. a place name
徒（ただ）の: exp. free, gratis, common, ordinary (more common to use the kanji 只)
徒（むだ）: なadj. useless, fruitless, futile, ineffective, wasteful (more common to write it as 無駄)
- ぎょうにんべん
- しんにょう
- 土
