jiǎo, jué
leg
Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and 卻 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[k]ak | kjak | jiǎo | leg, foot |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 53.0995% of movies
792nd most common character in movies
790th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8173 |
Shuowen | “腳,脛也。从肉,卻聲。” |
Sources
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