Memory phrase for the character: 跳

跳

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Meaning

jump, hop, leap up, spring, jerk

Pronunciation

CHŌ
haneru, tobu

Explanation

 Left: foot 足 (kneecap 口 and a footprint 止), right: sign/omen 兆 (cracks in a turtle shell that were used in ancient China for divination)

Mnemonic
 
The foot makes traces (= signs) when jumping and hopping.

Radicals

足 footIt shows at the top a kneecap 口 and at the bottom a foot-print 止.
兆 omen
止 to stopAt top the picture of a left foot and at bottom a limiting line. "The foot stands at the line 一 and stops."




 Vocabulary

跳ねる はねる  to jump, to leap, to prance, to spring up, to bound, to hop
跳ぶ とぶ  to jump, to fly, to leap, to spring, to bound, to hop

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