Memory phrase for the character: 踵

踵

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Meaning

to follow, to arrive, heel

Pronunciation

zhǒng

Explanation

 Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: double, heavy 重 (vehicle 車/车 with extra wheels 二 for heavy loads)

Mnemonic
 
When you are on foot and that vehicle is heavy, it's easy: to follow.

Radicals

足 foot
重 heavy, to double
車 vehicle, cartTypically simplified to 车. It showed a hand-cart from the top: axle 丨, loading area 日, two wheels 二.




 Vocabulary

接踵 jiē zhǒng  to follow on sb's heels
祸不旋踵 huò bù xuán zhǒng  trouble is never far away (idiom)
旋踵 xuán zhǒng  to turn on one's heel; in the twinkle of an eye; instantly
旋踵 xuán zhǒng  

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