Character Details
| foot; enough | Ascii: — | w472 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 足 | zú | zoh:uh | 2 | 口 (mouth) + 止 (foot) → foot | 足 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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Captain Ahab lost his lower leg to the great white whale's mouth and had to mend it with a peg leg. | ||||||||||
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| [HSK 1] - Clear movement signal - movement, kicking, walking. Examples: 路, 跑 | |||||||||||
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| - Don't rush, take your time; we have enough time | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 159 - 言 | yán | to walk | speech | full speech form | 言 誉 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 口 (mouth) + 止 (foot) → foot | — | — | single-component; pictograph | ||||||||