蹈
dǎo HSK6

stamp feet

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

Components

足
足 Meaning component
zú foot
舀
舀 Sound component
yǎo to scoop up

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Jin 266-316 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangl'uːs
Unicodedhɑ̀u

說文解字

《說文》：“蹈，踐也。从足，舀聲。”

Sources

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