Memory phrase for the Kanji: 足
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足 |
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Meaning
| leg, foot, sufficient
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Pronunciation |
SOKU
ashi, tariru |
Explanation |
Top: kneecap 口, bottom: to stop 止 (= Footprint of the right foot rotated 90° to the left.) |
Mnemonic
| Between kneecap and foot is the leg, that's sufficient.
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Radicals
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足
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foot | It shows at the top a kneecap 口 and at the bottom a foot-print 止. |
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口
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mouth | A small square 口 stands for the mouth, and a big square 囗 is an enclosure. |
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止
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to stop | At top the picture of a left foot and at bottom a limiting line. "The foot stands at the line and stops." |
Tip: Go to the radicals that are contained in this character and learn all the characters with this radical systematically!
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Vocabulary
| 足 |
あし |
foot, pace, gait, leg |
| 足りる |
たりる |
to be sufficient/to be enough |
| 短足 |
たんそく |
short legs |
| 裸足 |
はだし |
barefoot |
| 発足 |
ほっそく |
starting, inauguration |
| 満足 |
まんぞく |
satisfaction |
| 不足 |
ふそく |
insufficiency, shortage, deficiency, dearth |
| 補足 |
ほそく |
supplement, complement |
| 物足りない |
ものたりない |
unsatisfied, unsatisfactory |
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