Chinese

腿

tuǐ
leg (Classifier: 條／条)
  • Phono-semantic compound 形聲
  • HSK 2
  • TOCFL 4
  • radical 肉
  • 14 strokes
  • 骽

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Origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *n̥ʰuːlʔ): semantic 肉 (“flesh”) + phonetic 退 (OC *n̥ʰuːbs).

Originally 骽 (OC *n̥ʰuːlʔ).

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Lineage

  • meaningChinese肉 “meat; flesh”
  • soundChinese退 “to step back; to move backwards”
    • ideaChinese皀 “Prepared food, a vessel full of food (as in 即 and 既, in which is simplified)”
    • ideaChinese辵 “to walk for a while and be still for a while”
      • ideaChinese彳 “to walk slowly”
      • ideaChinese止 “foot”
    • ideaChinese夊 “of going, slow”
    • ideaChinese日 “Sun”

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