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The Chinese word 脚 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
1. Variant of 腳

脚 ⇨ 月 + 却
Component Pinyin Meanings
yuè 1. (literary or dialectal) moon
2. moon-shaped objects
3. (literary) moonlight
4. month
     Synonyms: 月份, wuu:號頭
5. monthly
     月薪 - yuèxīn - monthly wage
6. Variant of 肉
7. Variant of 夕
8. Variant of 明
1. Simplified form of 卻

却 ⇨ 去 + 卩
Component Pinyin Meanings
1. to leave; to depart from
     去世 - to pass away
2. to go to; to leave for
      哪兒r? - Where are you going?
     Antonyms:
3. (before or after a verb) to go in order to do something
      辦公室 請假。 - He went to the office to ask for leave.
      釣魚 網球。 - He went fishing instead of playing tennis.
4. (between two verbs) to; in order to
5. (Used after a verb of motion to indicate movement away from the speaker.)
     下去 - to go down ant. to come down
      - to send away
6. to send; to dispatch
7. to play (a part, a character); to act
8. (euphemistic) to pass away; to die
9. last; past
     去年 - last year
10. 66th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "departure" (?)
11. Short for 去聲
12. (literary) to be separated by; to be apart by
13. (neologism) what the hell; what; damn; fuck
     我去 - what the hell
14. to remove; to get rid of
     去掉 - to remove
     脫去 - to throw off
     拆去 - to remove, to take off
      蝦腸 - to remove the intestines from shrimp
     牛肉 腥味 之後 好食 。 - Beef tastes much better after you get rid of the rankness.
     去頭 白蝦 - headless white shrimp
     去中心化 - decentralization
15. to discard
16. Variant of 弆
17. Variant of 驅
1. seal
2. Variant of 節

去 ⇨ 土 + 厶
Component Pinyin Meanings
1. earth; soil
     土堆 - mound; hillock
     這兒r 。 - 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
      覺得 東北話 實在 。 - 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
      - gun manufactured using indigenous methods
9. the Tu ethnic group; Monguor people; White Mongol
10. Short for 土耳其, Turkey
      戰爭 - Russo-Turkish War
11. Only used in 土門 (tr=Túmén)
12. Simplified form of 士
1. private
2. Variant of 私
3. Variant of 某