Memory phrase for the character: 跷

跷

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Meaning raise one's foot

Pronunciation

qiāo

Explanation

Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: Emperor Tang Yao 尧 (variation of halberd 戈 and table )

Mnemonic
 
If the foot is like a halberd on the table: the foot was raised.

Radicals

足 foot
尧 Tang Yaofourth of Five legendary
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 Vocabulary

踩高跷 cǎi gāo qiāo  to walk on stilts
高跷 gāo qiāo  stilts; walking on stilts as component of folk dance
跷跷板 qiāo qiāo bǎn  a see-saw
跷跷板 qiāo qiāo bǎn  a see-saw
跷跷板 qiāo qiāo bǎn  
蹊跷 qī qiāo  odd; queer; strange; fishy
蹊跷 qī qiāo  

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