step on

Components

Meaning component
foot

foot

Sound component
sun
Unknown component
feather

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartdaplˤaptread on; trample
Zhengzhangdaːb
Unicodedhɑp

說文解字

踐也。从足𦐇聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica