gēn
heel
Phonosemantic compound. 足 represents the meaning and 艮 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
gēn
heel; to follow, accompany; with; to follow closely; to go with; (of a woman) to marry sb; compared with; to; towards; and (joining two nouns)
Most common words with 跟
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
heel | ||
to tail | ||
to follow | ||
high-heeled shoes | ||
to catch up with |
Statistics
HSK level 1
Appears in 94.4578% of movies
125th most common character in movies
541st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+8DDF |
Shuowen | “跟，足踵也。从足，聲。，跟或从止。” |
Sources
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