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踐

jiàn

trample

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

Components
足 meaning component

足  Meaning component

zú, jù

  

foot

戔 sound component

戔  Sound component

jiān

  

small

Evolution

踐 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
踐 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
踐 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
踐 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

践 (踐) 

jiàn

trample, tread upon, walk on; to fulfill (a promise); to tread; to walk

Most common words with 踐
Freq.
Word
Meaning

实践

practice

践踏

to trample

践

to tread

作践

to ill-use

践行

to practice

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[dz]a[n]ʔ

dzjenX

jiàn

tread, trample


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.6201% of movies

2717th most common character in movies

1578th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

践

Unicode

U+8E10

Shuowen

“踐，履也。从足，戔聲。”


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