Language/Mandarin-chinese/Vocabulary/足-zú-foot;-enough

足 zú foot; enough - Mandarin Chinese

Definition

This character is itself a common radical, as in the characters 跑 păo “run”, 跟 gēn “follow”, and 路 lù “road”. At the left-hand side of a character, this radical is referred to colloquially as 足字旁 zúzìpáng “side made up of the character 足.” When 足 is written as a radical, its last two strokes are different, with the last stroke angling up to make room for the component on the right. Distinguish 足 from 走 zŏu, 是 shì, and simplified 虽 suī.

Examples

• 足球 zúqiú soccer (lit. “football”) [N]
• 足球队 (足球隊) zúqiú duì soccer team [PH]

◉足球社 zúqiú shè soccer club [PH]

Sources

Book: Intermediate Written Chinese by Cornelius C. Kubler

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