| Word |
Components |
Pinyin |
Meanings |
|---|
| 路 |
足 |
lù |
1. road; path; street |
|
修路 - to build a road |
|
2. pattern; arrangement; sequence |
|
思路 - train of thought |
|
紋路 - veined pattern |
|
3. way; method |
|
生路 - means of livelihood; way of subsistence |
|
4. journey |
|
回家 的 路 很 遠。 - It's a long journey to return home. |
|
佢 身體 好 虛，行 幾 步 路 都 會 暈。 - His body is very weak, walking only a few steps already makes him dizzy. |
|
還有 一 公里 的 路 要 走。 - |
|
5. route |
|
三 路 進軍 - to advance along three routes |
|
12 路 公交車 - No. 12 bus |
|
6. kind; type |
|
7. region |
|
各 路 人馬 - people from different places |
|
8. -year-old, in multiples of ten; decade(s) of one's life; (Used for describing the style of people in such age range.) |
|
三十-路 大叔 - a man in his thirties - |
|
七十-路 - [JAV featuring women in their seventies - |
|
9. (historical) circuit (an administrative unit during the Song and Yuan dynasties) |
踏 |
足沓 |
tà, tā |
1. to step on; to trample; to tread on | |
2. to investigate onsite |
|
3. (Cantonese, dialectal Hakka) (Used before a number to indicate time, where the number is what the minute hand is pointing to on an analog clock.) |
|
踏 三 - quarter past |
|
踏 九 - quarter to |
|
踏半 - half past |
|
踏 八 個 半 字 - around 42 past |
|
4. (Hokkien, Teochew, Northern Wu) to ride (a bicycle) |
|
踏 跤踏車 - to ride a bicycle, MN |
捉 |
扌足 |
zhuō |
1. to grasp; to hold; to clutch | |
2. to catch; to capture |
|
他們 捉 到 了 幾 條 魚。 - They caught several fish. |
|
小 雛雞 圍 在 母雞 的 周圍 捉 蟲子zi。 - The baby chicks are catching insects around the hen. |
|
3. to tease; to play tricks on |
|
4. to arrest (a person for a crime); to apprehend |
|
5. (Cantonese) to arrest for a crime |
|
捉 違泊paak3 - to prosecute illegal parking - |
|
6. (Cantonese, Hakka) to play (a board game) |
|
捉 象棋 - tr=zog5 xiong4 ki2, to play Chinese chess, H-MX - |
趾 |
足 |
zhǐ |
1. (anatomy) toe; foot | |
2. track; footprint |
促 |
亻足 |
cù |
1. hurried; urgent | |
2. to come close to |
|
3. to urge |
|
4. short |
|
5. Variant of 齪 |
|
6. Variant of 蹙 |
蹊 |
足奚 |
xī |
1. (literary) footpath | | qī |
2. Used in 蹊蹺 (tr=-) |
践 |
足戋 |
|
1. Simplified form of 踐 |
蹈 |
足舀 |
蹈 |
1. to step; to tread | |
赴湯蹈火 - to defy all difficulties and dangers, lit=to go through boiling water and tread on fire |
|
2. to jump; to trample |
|
手舞足蹈 - to dance and gesticulate for joy |
|
3. to obey; to abide by |
|
蹈襲 - to follow (old customs, methods, rules, etc.) |
|
循規蹈矩 - to observe rules |
跛 |
足皮 |
bǒ |
1. lame; crippled |
蹇 |
足 |
jiǎn, qiān |
1. (literary) lame; crippled | |
2. (literary) difficult; hard; unlucky |
|
3. (literary) dull; stupid; dumb |
|
4. (literary) arrogant; haughty |
|
5. (literary) lame donkey or inferior horse |
|
6. (literary) stutter |
|
7. (literary) (Sentence-initial particle.) |
|
8. 39th hexagram of the I Ching |
蹁 |
足 |
pián |
1. to walk with a limp |
踵 |
足重 |
zhǒng |
1. heel | |
2. to follow |
|
3. to visit; to call on |
