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脚

jiǎo, jué

leg

Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and 却 represents the sound. Simplified form of 腳.

Components
⺼ meaning component

⺼  Meaning component

ròu

  

meat, flesh

⺼ is a component form of 肉.

却 sound component

却  Sound component

què

  

but

Evolution

脚 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
脚 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
脚 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
脚 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

脚 (腳) 

jiǎo

foot; base, leg, foundation; leg (of an animal or an object); base (of an object); CL:雙|双[shuāng],隻|只[zhī]; classifier for kicks

脚 (腳) 

jué

variant of 角[jué]; role

Most common words with 脚
Freq.
Word
Meaning

脚

foot

脚步

footstep

手脚

hand and foot

脚趾

toe

脚踝

ankle

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[k]ak

kjak

jiǎo

leg, foot


Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 53.0995% of movies

792nd most common character in movies

790th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Traditional

腳

Unicode

U+811A


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