Sinograph Addenda · Signs

enter

Name	enter
Reads	rù
Means	to enter, go in
Taught in	02 · The verb and its object

Where it comes from

A point driving in — the identifications offered are a wedge, an arrowhead, a tent-flap parted to admit a visitor; the picture is old enough that no one is sure, and the meaning never moved: to enter. It is the mirror of 出, and the classics love to swing the pair in one sentence. Taught in the verb-and-object chapter.

How to remember it

The wedge goes in: enter.

In the wild

入則孝，出則悌。rù zé xiào, chū zé tì"entering, be filial; going out, be a younger brother" — the door swings both ways and each side has its duty

Analects 1.6 — the young person's whole curriculum, which ends: "…and if strength remains, study the pattern." urn:nabu:kanripo:KR1h0004:001:6a · license: attribution.