跌跤
diē​jiāo

fall

跌 diē stumble

Phonosemantic compound. 足 represents the meaning and 失 represents the sound.

Components

足
足 Meaning component
zú foot
失
失 SoundMeaning component
shī lose

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartdetlˤi[t] stumble

說文解字

《說文》：“跌，踼也。从足，失聲。一曰越也。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

跤 jiāo, qiāo stumble

Phonosemantic compound. 足 represents the meaning and 交 represents the sound.

Components

足
足 Meaning component
zú foot
交
交 Sound component
jiāo to cross, to mix

Character Evolution

Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangkʰreːw

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica