漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
足: leg, foot
Also: be sufficient, counter for pairs of footwear
- 口mouth(form)
- 龰(form)
口 and 龰 are drawn in
Oracle bone · Shang Bronze · Western Zhou Small seal · Qin Today
Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Four readings, and the words that use each
ソクsoku · on'yomi · in compounds
- 足跡そくせきfootprints
- 遠足えんそくfield trip
- 自給自足じきゅうじそくself-sufficiency
- 満足するまんぞくするbe satisfied
- 発足するほっそくするstart (e.g. organization)
あしashi · kun'yomi · on its own
- 足あしleg
たりるtariru · kun'yomi
- 足りるたりるbe enough [v.i.]
たすtasu · kun'yomi
- 足すたすadd [v.t.]
Also read たる, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Pictogram (象形)
Pictogram (象形) of a leg; similar to 疋.
Source: Wiktionary, 足 (rev. 93378193), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“See the foot firmly planted on the earth! The top part is the sturdy leg, while the bottom shows the foot ready to take a bold step forward.”
Connections
Also built on 龰
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by sideIn ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · zú
Same form: 足 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 足 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 足 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin zú most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.