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to walk; to go on foot / to leave; to depart / (informal) to clear off; to beat it / (of sb who gets fired or resigns) to leave the job; to get out
HSK 1
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  *腳* | 腳* | *腳
foot / leg (of an animal or an object) / base (of an object) / CL: 雙|双, 隻|只 / classifier for kicks
HSK 2
pedestrian / traveler on foot / passer-by / official responsible for arranging audiences with the emperor
HSK 2
square (as in square foot, square mile, square root)
HSK 4
to go on foot / to walk
HSK 4
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  *尺* | 尺* | *尺
a Chinese foot / one-third of a meter / a ruler / a tape-measure / one of the three acupoints for measuring pulse in Chinese medicine / CL: ,
HSK 4
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  *登* | 登* | *登
to scale (a height) / to ascend / to mount / to publish or record / to enter (e.g. in a register) / to press down with the foot / to step or tread on / to put on (shoes or trousers) (dialect) / to be gathered and taken to the threshing ground (old)
HSK 4
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  *足* | 足* | *足
(bound form) foot; leg / sufficient; ample / as much as; fully
HSK 6
(medicine) diabetic foot
all over / from head to foot
HSK 7-9
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  *徒* | 徒* | *徒
(bound form) disciple; apprentice; believer; (derog.) wrongdoer (as in 騙徒|骗徒 "swindler" or 叛徒 "traitor" etc) / (bound form) on foot / (bound form) bare; empty / (bound form) to no avail; in vain / (bound form) merely; just; only / (bound form) prison sentence
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  *頓* | 頓* | *頓
to stop / to pause / to arrange / to lay out / to kowtow / to stamp (one's foot) / at once / classifier for meals, beatings, scoldings etc: time, bout, spell, meal
HSK 3
athlete's foot; tinea pedis / beriberi
to reveal the cloven foot (idiom); to unmask one's true nature / to give the game away
to be on foot
HSK 7-9
hand foot and mouth disease, HFMD, caused by a number of intestinal viruses, usually affecting young children
hand and foot / movement of limbs / action / trick / step in a procedure (CL:)
HSK 7-9
you (used to a superior or between persons of the same generation) / below the foot
foot (unit of length equal to 0.3048 m)
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  *撥* | 撥* | *撥
to push aside with the hand, foot, a stick etc / to dial / to allocate / to set aside (money) / to poke (the fire) / to pluck (a string instrument) / to turn round / classifier: group, batch
HSK 7-9
to set foot in / to step into / to become involved for the first time
swift feet / fleet-footed runner
lit. win an inch, want a foot (idiom); fig. not satisfied with small gains / give him an inch, and he'll want a mile
to crush one's own foot while trying to maneuver a rock (to a cliff edge, to drop on one's enemy) (idiom) / hoisted by one's own petard
foot soldier / minor figure / a nobody / (chess) pawn
HSK 7-9
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  *蹲* | 蹲* | *蹲
(dialect) to sprain one's foot or leg due to a sudden impact or landing
to set foot on (a foreign land etc); to tread / (fig.) to enter (a new sphere)
foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) / aphthous fever
to go on foot (idiom) / to do things at a leisurely pace
foot of a wall
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  *跂* | 跂* | *跂
foot
(literary) a one-foot-long strip of wood or bamboo, used for writing in ancient times; (as a metonym) letter; written message
the quick-footed climb up first (idiom) / the early bird catches the worm / first come, first served
to stamp one's foot / to kick
doing as one pleases (idiom); foot-loose and fancy free
one's late days / to have one foot in the grave
lit. for some things a foot may be too short, and for the other an inch will suffice (proverb) / fig. everyone has their strong and weak points / everything has its advantages and disadvantages
foot of a hill or mountain / (physiognomy) root of the nose (between the eyes)
the sole of the foot
to run; to go somewhere on foot; (coll.) to abscond; to run off (esp. to evade debts or legal trouble)
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  *掌* | 掌* | *掌
palm of the hand / sole of the foot / paw / horseshoe / to slap / to hold in one's hand / to wield
chalkboard ledge / whiteboard ledge / chalk tray (at the foot of a blackboard) / whiteboard marker tray
shoe that can be worn on either foot
(coll.) foot
a left-and-right pair of shoes (distinguished from 直腳鞋|直脚鞋, shoes that can be worn on either foot)
pawn (i.e. foot soldier) / servant / lackey (of malefactor)
foot chakra
lit. the person from Zheng 鄭|郑 who wanted to buy shoes (an allusion to an ancient story about somebody who, when buying a pair of shoes, preferred to rely on their foot measurements rather than just trying them on) (idiom) / fig. disregarding the sensible approach in favor of adherence to a fixed idea
foot of a mountain
to move to and fro (with hand, foot, stick etc) / to fiddle with / to stir up
infantry / foot / infantryman / foot soldier
instep (upper surface of the foot)
foot (syllabic unit in verse) / meter / scansion
to set foot on / to step on or into
HSK 7-9
the extremity of the foot
foot fault (tennis etc)
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  *呎* | 呎* | *呎
foot (unit of length equal to 0.3048 m) / old form of modern 英尺
facing the end (idiom); at the end of one's life / with one foot in the grave
(bird species of China) red-footed falcon (Falco vespertinus)
under the foot
square foot (unit of area equal to 0.093 m²)
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  *彳* | 彳* | *彳
step with the left foot (Kangxi radical 60) / see also 彳亍
lit. not putting a foot outside / to stay at home
to move a stone and stub one's toe / to shoot oneself in the foot (idiom)
walking speed / distance traveled by foot
(four-footed) animal / beast
corn (callus on the foot)
burial of cremated remains at the foot of a tree
foot massage
to walk on tiptoe / to step on sb's foot / to join (a trade, profession etc) / to associate with (a certain group of people)
athlete's foot
(bird species of China) flesh-footed shearwater (Puffinus carneipes)
to jump on one foot / to hop
(bird species of China) red-footed booby (Sula sula)
athlete's foot
lit. to stand with each foot in a different boat (idiom) / fig. to have it both ways / to run after two hares / (especially) to have two lovers at the same time
foot-binding / long strip of cloth used for foot-binding
one moment ..., (the next ...) / leading foot (in walking)
(bird species of China) pale-footed bush warbler (Hemitesia pallidipes)
bound hand and foot (idiom); constrained
(historical) bound foot (esp. one only three inches long, considered the ideal size of a woman's foot)
moisture / humidity / athlete's foot / tinea / eczema
instep (upper surface of the foot)
(of a shoe) designed to be worn on a specific foot – either the left or the right
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  *蹺* | 蹺* | *蹺
to raise one's foot / to stand on tiptoe / stilts
silk loom with a foot peddle
to reveal the cloven foot (idiom); to unmask one's true nature / to give the game away
(bird species of China) black-footed albatross (Phoebastria nigripes)
(coll.) going on foot
foot fetish
to split the bill (where the male counterpart foots the larger portion of the sum) / (theater) a system where two actors take turns in acting the main role, with one actor replacing the other if either is unavailable
human hand foot and mouth disease, a viral infection
Manchurian foot soldier
shoe that can be worn on either foot
paws (of small animal) / foot of a utensil / stupid person
foot position (in dance)
(one moment ...,) the next ... / trailing foot (in walking)
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  *疋* | 疋* | *疋
foot
to have a foot in both camps / to have a bet each way / to be having an affair
foot bath

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