róu

trample under foot

Components
足 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

foot

foot

柔 sound component

  Sound component

róu

  

soft, flexible

Evolution

蹂 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
蹂 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
蹂 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

róu

trample under foot, tread on; trample

Most common words with 蹂
Freq.
Word
Meaning

蹂躏

to ravage

trample

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3815th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Unicode

U+8E42

Shuowen

“禸,獸足蹂地也。象形,九聲。《尔疋》曰:‘狐貍貛貉醜其足,其迹厹。’蹂,篆文从足,柔聲。”


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