Meaning & readings
leap, dance, skip
Origin
This character combines the foot radical 足, which indicates movement of the body, with 翟 on the right side, which serves as a sound hint for the pronunciation. The foot radical makes sense because leaping and dancing are actions performed with the legs and feet. The 翟 component doesn't contribute a meaning — it's there mainly to guide how the character should be pronounced, similar to how many Japanese kanji pair a meaningful component with a phonetic clue. Together, the foot imagery and the sound indicator created a character that represents the dynamic, energetic movements of jumping and dancing.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint).
Components
- 足
- 翟
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 21
- Kangxi radical
- 157
- Grade
- Jōyō (secondary school)
- Frequency rank
- #900 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 1
- Unicode
- U+08E8D