zhǒng

heel

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
足 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

foot

重 sound component

  Sound component

zhòngchóng

  

heavy

Evolution

踵 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
踵 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
踵 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
踵 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
踵 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

zhǒng

heel; follow; visit, call on; to arrive; to follow

Most common words with 踵
Freq.
Word
Meaning

接踵而来

to come one after the other

heel

摩肩接踵

a thronging crowd

接踵

to follow on sb's heels

旋踵

instantly

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3695th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Unicode

U+8E35

Shuowen

“踵,追也。从足,重聲。一曰往來皃。”


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