足

jù = ju + Ø4

excessive

zú = zu + Ø2

foot / to be sufficient / ample

足 = 龰 + 口 : Mnemonic symbol: a football. Zapatista Zebra (zu) wants to pimp his football (足) in the space station's kitchen (Ø2). He thinks that a few more vitamins wouldn't hurt, so he extracts the vitamins from a mandarin (口) with a syringe (龰) to inject them into his football.

足 character breakdown

足
- 口
- 龰
  - 人
    - 丿
    - ㇏
  - ⺊
    - 一
    - 丨

口

kǒu = k + ou3

mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls

Mnemonic symbol: 口 shall be represented by a mandarin. Karl Marx (k-) is enjoying a mandarin in the outhouse's living room (ou3).

龰

Character component without intrinsic meaning

龰 = ⺊ + 人 : Neanderthal man (人) accidentally pierced his foot with a pennant (⺊). Now he'll have to get an injection against tetanus. This character will thus be represented by a syringe.

Characters with 足 as component

迹

跡

jì = ji + Ø4

footprint / mark / trace / vestige / sign / indication / Taiwan pr. [ji1]

迹 = 亦 + 辶 : Joan of Arc (ji) is caring for the also-ran (亦) after she finished a marathon in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). The also-ran was wearing gladiator sandals (辶) but already after half of the race they were worn through, and Joan of Arc can see the footprints (迹) the also-ran left with her bare feet when she came in.

跃

躍

yuè = yu + e4

to jump / to leap

跃 = ⻊ + 夭 : Snow White (夭) and Yu the Great (yu) are sack racing in the elevator's bathroom (e4), just that they are not using sacks but huge cowboy boots (⻊). They are competing for who can leap (跃) farther.

躁

zào = z + ao4

hot-tempered / impatient

躁 = ⻊ + 喿 : A loud cuckoo clock (喿) wakes up Zorro (z) in the aorta's bathroom (ao4) after he drunkenly fell asleep there. Zorro reacts very hot-tempered (躁) by throwing his cowboy boot (⻊) at the clock and ruining it.

躁

zào = z + ao4

impatient; hot-tempered

距

jù = ju + Ø4

at a distance of / distance / to be apart

距 = ⻊ + 巨 : The giant Leshan Buddha (巨) is trying out his new cowboy boot (⻊) by kicking Zeus (ju) out of the space station's bathroom's (Ø4) window. Zeus doesn't even know what happened until he sees the boot from a distance (距).

蹬

de̅ng = d + (e)ng1

to step on / to tread on / to wear (shoes) / (slang) to dump (sb) / Taiwan pr. [deng4]

蹬 = ⻊ + 登 : Don Quixote (d) wants to mount (登) a cowboy boot (⻊) in front of the engine ((e)ng1), but realistically he is merely stepping (蹬) on it.

蹲

du̅n = du + (e)n1

to crouch / to squat / to stay (somewhere)

蹲 = ⻊ + 尊 : The sage (尊) is walking Doggie Dog (du) in front of the encampment ((e)n1) when suddenly Doggie Dog has to use the toilet. He cannot just shit on Tiananmen square because the fine would be astronomic. The sage makes a wise decision in giving Doggy Dog his left cowboy boot (⻊) which Doggy Dog uses like a squat (蹲) toilet.

踹

chuài = chu + ai4

to kick / to trample / to tread on

蹈

dǎo = d + ao3

to tread on / to trample / to stamp / to fulfill / Taiwan pr. [dao4]

蹈 = ⻊ + 舀 : Don Quixote (d) is trampling (蹈) through the aorta (ao3) practicing a folk dance (蹈) in his cowboy boots (⻊), but he finds there is a small stone in one of his boots and he has to scoop it out (舀) before he can continue.

踏

ta̅ = t + a1

see 踏實|踏实[ta1 shi5]

踏

tà = t + a4

to tread / to stamp / to step on / to press a pedal / to investigate on the spot

踏 = ⻊ + 沓 : Tecumseh (t) tries on his new cowboy boots (⻊) in the ashram's bathroom (a4), but accidentally he tramples (踏) all over his hot tub (沓).