Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 足
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足 |
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Meaning |
leg, foot, sufficient |
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. |
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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