字の旅3,000 years in four forms
Oracle bone · ShangShang · c. 1200 BCE
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.
部首Radical · in Human Body & People
足
足 foot, leg, sufficient
あし ashi · as a side part あしへん ashihen
7 strokesRadical of 11 kanjiPart of 12
Your ink in 足0% painted · 0 of 11 familiar
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. Curiously, it also means 'to be enough'—perhaps because when your feet have carried you across the finish line, you have reached sufficiency.”
Where it sits in a kanji
Relates to legs, feet, walking, distance, or the state of being 'enough' or satisfied
育つ
What it grows into
Built from 足, with sourced origins
- 路pathロ · じ
足 + 各sound
Phono-semantic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 踏stepトウ · ふむ
足 + 沓sound
Phono-semantic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 躍leapヤク · おどる
足 + 翟sound
Phono-semantic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
一覧
Every kanji with 足 as its radical
Most used first