Chinese Character Wiki
腳

jiǎo, jué

leg

Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and 卻 represents the sound.

Components
⺼ meaning component

⺼  Meaning component

ròu

  

meat, flesh

⺼ is a component form of 肉.

卻 sound component

卻  Sound component

què

  

but

Evolution

腳 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
腳 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
腳 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

脚 (腳) 

jiǎo

foot; base, leg, foundation; leg (of an animal or an object); base (of an object); CL:雙|双[shuāng],隻|只[zhī]; classifier for kicks

脚 (腳) 

jué

variant of 角[jué]; role

Most common words with 腳
Freq.
Word
Meaning

脚

foot

脚步

footstep

手脚

hand and foot

脚趾

toe

脚踝

ankle

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[k]ak

kjak

jiǎo

leg, foot


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 53.0995% of movies

792nd most common character in movies

790th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

脚

Unicode

U+8173

Shuowen

“腳，脛也。从肉，卻聲。”


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