Chinese Character Wiki
足

zú, jù

foot

Pictograph of a foot (止) attached to a leg.

Components
◎ iconic component

◎  Iconic component

  

characterless component

Depicts a leg.

止 iconic component

止  Iconic component

zhǐ

  

(foot), stop

Evolution

足 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
足 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
足 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
足 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
足 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

足  

zú

foot; attain, satisfy, enough; to be sufficient; ample

足  

jù

excessive

Most common words with 足
Freq.
Word
Meaning

足够

enough

满足

to satisfy

不足

lacking

足球

soccer ball

足

foot

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ts]ok-s

tsjuH

jù

replenish

*[ts]ok

tsjowk

zú

sufficient

*[ts]ok

tsjowk

zú

foot


Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 65.5454% of movies

692nd most common character in movies

527th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+8DB3

Shuowen

“足，人之足也，在下。从止、囗。”


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