跟
gēn HSK1

heel

跟 gēn
with preposition
preposition or conjunction indicating accompaniment, comparison, target, or joining nouns (and)

我跟他都是北京人。

wǒ gēn tā dōu shì Běi​jīng​rén.

Both he and I are from Beijing.

follow verb
to follow closely behind or to accompany someone

别一直跟着我。

bié yī​zhí gēn zhe wǒ.

Don't keep following me.

heel noun
the back part of the foot or the part of a shoe that supports the heel

这双鞋的后跟有点硬。

zhè shuāng xié de hòu gēn yǒu​diǎn yìng.

The heels of these shoes are a bit hard.

marry verb
(of a woman) to marry or be married to a man

她跟了一个老实人。

tā gēn le yī gè lǎo​shí​rén.

She settled down with an honest man.

Frequency
Character
Written text
541st most common 392.5 per million
Movie subtitles
125th most common 1437.8 per million appears in 94% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1877.4 per million appears in 93% of films
Written text
463.3 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
13
Unicode
U+8DDF

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)