Kilo Lingo

(zú) - foot; enough in Mandarin

Traditional: 足

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Coloured illustration of 足
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Translation

foot; enough

Word origin

A pictograph showing the lower leg and foot; the upper part 口 represents the knee or calf and the lower part the foot, the original sense from which enough and sufficient later developed.

Origin
pictographic
Root
pictograph of the lower leg and foot

Stroke order

Stroke order for 足

Examples

Is there enough time?

This money is enough.

He likes playing football.

There is enough time for us to finish the work.

We do not have enough manpower.

足 (zú) means foot on its own, and enough in compounds like 足够 (zú gòu).

Appears in 2 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 足.

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This word is part of lesson 109.