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達 返 遠 速 All these kanji seem to be set on a shoe, or a boat, or something.
What is it called? Does it mean something?
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達 返 遠 速 What are these kanji characters sitting on?
It is called しんにょう or しんにゅう. It means something to do with roads/ways/walking.
(Your examples mean _reach/return/far/fast_ respectively).

The modern norm is one dot at the first (top left) stroke (= total three
strokes), but it used to be two dots like the following picture; and today non
regular kanjis (outside 常用漢字) has still two dots. See the references below for
details.

[![dbk](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9fxdV.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9fxdV.png)
[![tuji](https://i.stack.imgur.com/clNyI.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/clNyI.png)

**References**

  * [Wikipedia/繞#しんにょう](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%B9%9E#%E3%81%97%E3%82%93%E3%81%AB%E3%82%87%E3%81%86)
  * [「つじ」の「しんにょう」は１点？ ２点？](https://mainichi-kotoba.jp/blog-20171223)
  * [第228回 越後と「辶」（しんにょう）](https://dictionary.sanseido-publ.co.jp/column/kanji_genzai228)
  * [部首：しんにょう・しんにゅう（辵 辶）の漢字（画数順）](https://kanji.jitenon.jp/cat/bushu03015.html)
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