Radical 157 or radical foot (足部) meaning "foot" is one of the 20 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 7 strokes.

← 156 Radical 157 (U+2F9C) 158 →
(U+8DB3) "foot"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:
Bopomofo:ㄗㄨˊ
Wade–Giles:tsu2
Cantonese Yale:juk1
Jyutping:zuk1, zeoi3
Japanese Kana:ショク shoku / ソク soku (on'yomi)
あし ashi / たる taru (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:족 jok
Hán-Việt:túc
Names
Chinese name(s):(Left) 足字旁 zúzìpáng
(Bottom) 足字底 zúzìdǐ
Japanese name(s):足/あし ashi
(Left) 足偏/あしへん ashihen
Hangul:발 bal
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 580 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 158th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

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Derived characters

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Strokes Characters
+0
+2
+3 SC (=躉)
+4 趿 SC (=躍) SC (=蹌)
+5 SC (=躒) SC (=踐)
+6 JP (=踐) (=跺) SC (=躂) SC (=蹺) SC (=蹕) SC (=躚) SC (=躋)
+7 跿 (= -> ) JP (= -> ) SC (=踴) SC (=躊)
+8 (= -> ) SC/JP (=蹤) SC (=躓) SC (=躑)
+9 (= -> ) (= -> / -> ) 踿
+10 (=蹄) SC (=躡) SC (=蹣)
+11 (= -> ) (=跬) (=跡) (=跖) (= -> )
+12 SC (=躕) (=蹴) 蹿SC (=躥)
+13
+14 (=䟼) SC (=躪)
+15
+16 SC (=躦)
+17
+18
+19
+20
+21

Sinogram

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The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] It is a first grade kanji[1]


References

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  1. ^ a b "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.


Literature

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  • Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
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