Kanji Detail for 跋 - "trample, cross, stumble, postscript"

跋

Non-Jōyō Kanji

Meaning
跋 means "trample, cross, stumble, postscript."
1. Trample - To step on; to tread upon.
2. Cross - To pass over; to traverse.
3. Stumble - To trip; to fall.
4. Postscript - An afterword; a closing note.
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

epilogue; postscript

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

go by foot; epilogue, colophon

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

postscript; to trek across mountains

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

to walk, to travel; epilogue, colophon

XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

跋涉. Meaning to travel laboriously. Walking through grass is called 跋. Walking through water is called 涉. | Also frequent coming and going is called 跋來報往 (coming and going repeatedly). Appears in "Record of Rites." | Interchangeable with 暴. 跋扈. Meaning tyrannical. Emperor Zhi of Later Han called Liang Ji the "Domineering General." | The back of the foot is 跋. Therefore writing after a text is called 題跋 (colophon).
Onyomi

batsu(ばつ)

hatsu(はつ)
Kunyomi

fu.mu(ふむ)

okugaki
Strokes

12 strokes
Radical

足 (ashi・ashihen)
Related Keywords
trample step tread upon cross pass traverse stumble trip fall postscript afterword closing note