Word and Radical Components of 拖鞋

The Chinese word 拖鞋 is analysed below into its constituent words and the words into radicals. By seeing the breakdown of the word in this way you can more easily learn and recognise the word.

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
拖鞋	tuōxié	1. n. slippers

拖鞋 ⇨ 拖 + 鞋

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
拖	tuō	1. to drag; to tow; to haul
		拖車 - tow truck
		強拖 - to forcefully drag
		拖喼gip1 - to lug a suitcase
		2. to mop
		拖地 - to mop the floor
		3. to droop; to dangle; to hang down; to sag
		4. to hold hands
		手拖手 - hand holding hand
		5. to delay; to put off; to procrastinate; to adjourn; to defer; to prolong
		拖時間 - to stall
		6. to sustain (a sound)
		7. to pin down; to tie up; to check (e.g. the enemy forces); to encumber
		8. Short for 拖鞋, flip-flops; slippers
		人字拖
		9. (Cantonese, slang) fight
		還拖
		Tuo
鞋	xié	1. shoe; footwear
		一雙鞋 - a pair of shoes
		穿上你的鞋，我們出去吃晚飯。 - Put on your shoes. Let's go out for dinner.
		在這裡我必須脫鞋嗎？ - Do I have to take off my shoes here?
		2. Simplified form of 嚡

拖 ⇨ 扌 + 㐌

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
手	shǒu	1. hand
		2. expert; master
		高手 - master
		3. -ist; -er
		歌手 - singer
		4. convenient; handy; portable
		手機 - mobile phone
		手冊 - handbook
		5. handwritten
		6. (Min Nan) luck in gambling
		7. (Mainland China Hokkien)
		8. (Taiwanese Hokkien) hidden part (general)
		9. (finance)
		10. usage. In many varieties of Chinese south of the Yangtze River, 手 refers to the arm and hand collectively.
㐌	yí	1. a tribe of indigenous people in south China
		2. Used in personal names
		3. Variant of 色

鞋 ⇨ 革 + 圭

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
革	gé	1. leather; animal hide
		2. (historical) leather armour and weaponry
		3. (historical) ornament on the front of the cart
		4. to change; to alter; to reform
		5. to remove; to expel
		革職 - to dismiss; to remove from office
		革扯 - to fire; to dismiss; to remove from office
		6. 49th hexagram of the I Ching
圭	guī	1. jade pointed at top
		2. (historical) jade tablet used by officials when addressing the emperor in court
		3. (historical) gui (type of ancient Chinese sundial)

㐌 ⇨ + 也

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
		1.
也	yě	1. also; too; as well; (in negative sentences) neither; either
		我也去了。 - I also went.
		我也是中國人。 - I am Chinese too.
		你如果不去，我也不去。 - If you don't go, I won't either.
		我也沒有看見過它。 - I haven't seen it either.
		2. (Used for emphasis.)
		這也太不像話了。 - This is way too outrageous.
		3. (With object fronting.)
		4. 他飯也不吃，覺也不睡。 - (Disappointingly) he neither eats nor sleeps.
		5. (Used in the (m, zh, 連……也……) constructions for stronger emphasis. Interchangeable with 都.) even
		6. 他連畜生也不如，連自己的父母也不養活。 - He is no better than an animal, because he doesn't even support his own parents.
		7. (Used in the (m, zh, 再……也……) concessive constructions.) still, anyway, nevertheless
		8. 你再聰明，也回答不了liǎo 這個問題。 - No matter how smart you are, you won't be able to answer this question.
		9. (Classical) (Particle used at the end of copular constructions involving a nominal predicate;) to be (although not grammatically a verb)
		我亦人也。 - I am a person, too.
		其西有大山，天下至高者也。 - In the west there are great mountains, which are the tallest in the world.
		10. (Often used more loosely than the English copula to indicate a cause or relation.)
		11. (Classical) (Topic-marking particle used at the end of noun phrases.)
		Synonyms: 者
		12. when, at the time of; (especially commonly used for temporal topics, often as (m, zh, 及其……也).)
		13. (Classical) (Verb phrase-final particle marking continuous aspect, especially common for assertions of unchanging fact.)
		14. (Teochew) if
		15. . Ye

圭 ⇨ 土 + 土

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
土	tǔ	1. earth; soil
		土堆 - mound; hillock
		這兒r 的土夠肥的。 - The soil here is quite fertile.
		2. (dialectal) dust
		3. land
		國土 - territory
		寸土不讓 - to not give up a single inch of one's territory
		4. crude opium
		煙土 - crude opium
		5. hometown; native place
		故土 - native land; native place
		6. local; native; indigenous
		土著 - aboriginal
		土話 - local dialect
		7. rustic; unsophisticated; uncouth; vulgar; tasteless; uncultured
		我覺得東北話實在太土了。 - I think that Northeastern Mandarin is too rustic.
		8. indigenous; traditional and used by the common people
		土法 - traditional method used by the common people; indigenous method
		土槍 - gun manufactured using indigenous methods
		9. the Tu ethnic group; Monguor people; White Mongol
		10. Short for 土耳其, Turkey
		俄土戰爭 - Russo-Turkish War
	tú	11. Only used in 土門 (tr=Túmén)
		12. Simplified form of 士
土	tǔ	1. earth; soil
		土堆 - mound; hillock
		這兒r 的土夠肥的。 - The soil here is quite fertile.
		2. (dialectal) dust
		3. land
		國土 - territory
		寸土不讓 - to not give up a single inch of one's territory
		4. crude opium
		煙土 - crude opium
		5. hometown; native place
		故土 - native land; native place
		6. local; native; indigenous
		土著 - aboriginal
		土話 - local dialect
		7. rustic; unsophisticated; uncouth; vulgar; tasteless; uncultured
		我覺得東北話實在太土了。 - I think that Northeastern Mandarin is too rustic.
		8. indigenous; traditional and used by the common people
		土法 - traditional method used by the common people; indigenous method
		土槍 - gun manufactured using indigenous methods
		9. the Tu ethnic group; Monguor people; White Mongol
		10. Short for 土耳其, Turkey
		俄土戰爭 - Russo-Turkish War
	tú	11. Only used in 土門 (tr=Túmén)
		12. Simplified form of 士