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足
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JLPT HSK 2 |
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| foot, to be sufficient, ample
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Top: kneecap 口, below: picture of a footprint 止
Below the knee is the foot, that is enough.
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跑
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JLPT HSK 2 |
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| to run, to escape, race
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Left: foot 足 (= knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: to wrap 包 (The wrap 勹 itself 己 makes it to be wrapped.)
When the feet almost "wrap" themselves, you are running to escape.
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跳
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JLPT HSK 2 |
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| to jump, to hop, to skip over, to bounce, to palpitate
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Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: sign, omen 兆 (here: traces) (shows cracks in a turtle shell, in ancient China used for divination.)
The foot makes some traces when: jumping and hopping.
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路
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JLPT HSK 2 |
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| road, path, way
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Left: foot 足 (image of a kneecap 口 and a foot 止), right: each/every/all 各 (Sitting cross-legged 夂 on a cushion 口 does everybody.)
The feet all move on road.
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踢
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JLPT HSK 2 |
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| to kick (a ball), to play (e.g. soccer)
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Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: easy 易 (= warming sun 日 shine 勿 makes it easy.)
With the foot it is easy to kick a ball.
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跟
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JLPT HSK 3 |
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| heel, to follow closely, to go with
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Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: not good 艮 ('good' would be 良, but here the accent 丶 is missing, thus 'not good')
(Most often it hurts here:) The foot is not good at the heel.
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距
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JLPT HSK 4 |
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| distance, at a distance of, to be apart
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Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: huge 巨 (a staring eye)
(With endurance everything is possible:) The foot goes huge distances.
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跃
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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| to jump, to leap
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Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: early death 夭 (here: sky 天)
With your feet you get skywards when: jumping.
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践
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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| fulfill (a promise), tread, walk
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Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), center: two 二, rest: halberd 戈
One foot and two halberds are needed for fulfilling this promise.
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促
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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| to urge, urgent, to press (for action), hurried
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Left: person 人, right: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止)
A person uses the foot to urge (himself).
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蹲
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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| to crouch, to squat
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Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: honorific 尊 (When sth. comes out 丷 of a wine mug 酉 by a skillful hand 寸, it's seen to be: honorific.)
(Making a kowtow?) With your feet you are honorific, if you crouch.
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踩
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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| to step on, to tread, to stamp, to press a pedal
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Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: to pluck 采 (hand 爫 plucks from above into a tree 木)
The "plucking with the foot" means to: tread on it.
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踏
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| to tread on, to stamp, to press a pedal
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Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: many 沓 (water 水, sun 日 [here: sun 日 as 吕 = stones lying next to each other])
The foot can step into water or if there is a way of aligned stones to: tread on.
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跨
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| to step across, to stride over, to straddle, to span
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Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: boast 夸 (With part of jaw 咢 [=two teeth 口, tongue 一, lower jaw 丂], such that your big/extreme 太 jaw 丂 is boasting.)
Your foot is boasting, when stepping over a barrier.
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露
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| to come to appearance, reveal, show, nectar
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Top: rain 雨 (= window 冂 with cloud 一 and drops 丶丶), bottom: street 路 (The feet 足 all 各 move on the road.)
(The potholes are filling up?) Rain comes on the street into: appearance.
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捉
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| to capture, to clutch, to grab
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Left: hand 扌, right: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止)
You need hands and feet (to run after) for: capturing.
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踪
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| footprint, footmark, trace, tracks
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Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: religion/teaching 宗 (The 'roof' 宀 over the altar 示 is the religion)
Feet as well as religions leave footprints.
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跪
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| to kneel
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Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: danger 危 (The bent person ⺈ on the cliff 厂 could (when falling) change into a slumped person 㔾: That's the danger!) [厄= unlucky]
The feet shall, when in danger: kneel.
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跌
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| to tumble, to drop, to fall
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Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: to lose 失 (I emphasize ノ the husband 夫 will lose.)
If a foot is 'lost', you: tumble.
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躁
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| impatient, hot-tempered, excited
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Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: gather 喿 (3 mouths 口 [beaks] in a tree 木, where birds: gather.)
If your feet are as active as a tree full of birds, your are impatient.
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蹈
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| to tread on, to trample, dance, to stamp, to fulfill
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Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: 舀 (hand reaching down 爫, mortar 臼)
(At the grape-stomping) With the feet from above into the mortar: to tread in.
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蹦
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| to jump, to bounce, to hop
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Left: foot, sufficient 足, right: collapse 崩 (The mountain 山 will within two month 月/朋 collapse.) [朋 = friends]
Feet make it collapse by: jumping.
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趴
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| to lie on one's stomach, to lean forward
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Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: eight 八 (here: two legs)
When the feet are aside to the legs, you are lying on the stomach.
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蹬
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| to tread on, to pedal, to step on
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Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: to climb, ascend 登 (The volcano 癶 spits beans 豆: let's ascend it)
On foot you climb: Tread by tread.
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蹋
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| step on, trample, to waste, wreck
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Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: Variant of: collapse 塌 (You will come back to earth 土, when you want (to reach) the sun 日 with your flight 羽, whereat you collapse. [HERE: with foot 足 instead of earth 土]
The foot will on something collapsed: trample on.
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踊
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| to leap, to jump, enthusiastically
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Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: 甬 (=var. of pass 通 (bent person マ, use 用 [A fence 用 can be used])
The foot (=the leg) is bent, at the fence, when leaping over.
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跋
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JLPT no HSK |
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| travel, walk
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Left: foot 足, right: 犮 (friend 友 (= two hands [= They shake hands  ,又 because they are friends] with emphasis 丶)
Using feet the emphasized friends meet, when: traveling.
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踱
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JLPT no HSK |
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| to stroll, to pace
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Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: degree 度 (In the house 广 is an object 廿 with which the hand 又 measures x-times the degrees.)
To be on foot in a certain degree is: strolling.
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趾
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JLPT no HSK |
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| toe, tracks, footprints
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Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: to stop 止
(They are pressed against the floor:) The foot stops with: the toes.
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踉
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JLPT no HSK |
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| jump, stagger, sway from side to side
liáng, liàng
足
良
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Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: good 良
The foot is good for: jumping.
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踌
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JLPT no HSK |
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| hesitate, pace back and forth, waver
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Left: foot/leg 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: long life 寿 (Two skillful hands 手 & 寸 are needed to roll Sushi 寿司 and you will have a long life.)
Your feet will give you a long life, if you are hesitating.
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躇
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JLPT no HSK |
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| hesitate, indecisive
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Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: outstanding 著 (Under the plant 艹 is a person 者, who is an outstanding writer.)
When the foot (shall go) over the plants, the person is hesitating.
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跄
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JLPT no HSK |
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| stagger, sway from side to side, swinging
qiāng, qiàng
足
仓
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Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: warehouse 仓 (Under the pointed roof 人 is a roll of cloth 㔾 in the warehouse)
The foot trips in the warehouse over a roll of cloth 㔾 and staggers.
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踞
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JLPT no HSK |
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| squat, entrench, be based upon
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Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: reside/live 居 (Where the buttock 尸 [side view] becomes old 古, he has his residence.)
If your feet (directly) reside you, you are squatting. (equally as when you are entrenching)
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蹑
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JLPT no HSK |
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| to walk on tiptoe, to walk quietly, tread (on), follow
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Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: whisper 聂 (To the ear 耳 with both hands 双 and we whisper.)
When the foot whispers it is on the tiptoes.
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踵
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JLPT no HSK |
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| to follow, to arrive, heel
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Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: double, heavy 重 (vehicle 車/车 with extra wheels 二 for heavy loads)
When you are on foot and that vehicle is heavy, it's easy: to follow.
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蹭
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JLPT no HSK |
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| to rub against, to walk slowly
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Left: foot, sufficient 足, right: formerly 曾 (=曽 - At rain 丷 on the field 田 as under the sun 日, that's how we worked formerly.)
The foot formerly rubbed against sth. (like the ground) causing a slow walk.
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跤
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JLPT no HSK |
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| tumble, fall
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Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: exchange, crossing 交 (six 六 crosses 㐅)
If the feet are crossing during exchange, you tumble and fall.
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跷
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JLPT no HSK |
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| raise one's foot
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Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: Emperor Tang Yao 尧 (variation of halberd 戈 and table  )
If the foot is like a halberd on the table: the foot was raised.
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跺
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JLPT no HSK |
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| to stomp (or stamp) one's feet, to step
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Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: blossom 朵 (Image of a blossom 几 in a tree 木)
If the foot leaves (on the floor) a 'blossom' (= imprint), you have stomped (stamped).
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蹿
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JLPT no HSK |
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| to leap up
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Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: to flee, scuttle 窜 Into that hole 穴 [=foxhole] with the two chambers 口口 and a passage 丨 [the fox] has fled.) [串=chain])
When your feet flee [from the ground], you leap up.
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蹂
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JLPT no HSK |
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| trample
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Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: soft, flexible 柔 (A spear 矛 from the upper part of a tree 木 is soft & flexible)
The feet destroy until everything is soft and flexible, when: trampling.
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躏
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JLPT no HSK |
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| to trample down, to oppress, to overrun, overflood
lìn
足
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Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: 蔺 (plant 艹, gate 门/門 and bird 隹)
This is what the feet do to the grass at the gate like a number of birds: trample everything down.
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蹄
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JLPT no HSK |
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| hoof, pig's trotters
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Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: emperor 帝 (He stands 立 and is covered 冖 with cloth 巾)
The foot is imperial, if it is: a hoof.
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跛
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JLPT no HSK |
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| crippled, lame
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Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: skin 皮 (A hand 又 with a knife 丨 peels off the skin 厂)
If you foot has some (extra) skin, you are crippled.
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跚
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JLPT no HSK |
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| to limp, hobble, stagger
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Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: book, booklet 册 (here: 冂 as 'thick legs')
Feet with thick legs that are bonded with a string 一: limp.
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踝
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JLPT no HSK |
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| ankle, malleolus
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Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: fruit, result 果 (= The "rice field" 田 at the tree 木)
At the foot is a pivot point 田 of a 'wooden foot' the: ankle.
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蹊
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JLPT no HSK |
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| footpath, narrow trail
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Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: What? WHERE? 奚 (The down-reaching hand 爫 wants to fish with the thread 糸 something big 大, but: What? Where?)
Where the feet that 'reach down' transform the fibers (=threads of the grasses) into something big (= flattened), a path is created.
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蹙
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JLPT no HSK |
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| to knit (one's brows), to hesitate, distressed
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Top: relatives, grief 戚 (When halberds 戈 are raging in the pepper fields 尗 the relatives are grieving.), bottom: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止)
When the relatives are in grief because you go (=足), they: knit (their brows).
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