zú​gòu HSK3

enough

foot

Pictograph of a foot () attached to a leg.

Components

Iconic component
characterless component

Depicts a leg.

Iconic component
zhǐ (foot), stop

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarttsjuH[ts]ok-s replenish
tsjowk[ts]ok sufficient
tsjowk[ts]ok foot

說文解字

《說文》:“足,人之足也,在下。从止、囗。”

Sources

Character origin
季旭昇《說文新證》p.143漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica

gòu enough Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
duō much
Sound component
sentence

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode

gòu enough Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
duō much
Sound component
sentence

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangkoː
koːs
kʰoː

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang