zhǒng
heel
Phonosemantic compound. 足 represents the meaning and 重 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 踵
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to come one after the other | ||
heel | ||
a thronging crowd | ||
to follow on sb's heels | ||
instantly |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3695th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Unicode | U+8E35 |
Shuowen | “踵，追也。从足，重聲。一曰往來皃。” |
Sources
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