dēng
step on
Phonosemantic compound. 足 represents the meaning and 登 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
dēng
step on, tread on; lose energy; to step on; to tread on; to wear (shoes); (slang) to dump (sb); Taiwan pr. [dèng]
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.0572% of movies
3287th most common character in movies
3349th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 19 |
Unicode | U+8E6C |
Shuowen | 《說文新附》：“蹬，蹭蹬也。从足，登聲。” |
Sources
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