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Radical 105two feet stepping outward; to tread, to climb

(fourth tone, falling)

two feet stepping outward; to tread, to climb

Radical 1055 strokes0 characters

Where the shape comes from

Two feet planted and turned outward, left and right splayed apart the way a climber braces before a step up. It carries 豆, a stemmed vessel, underfoot in 登, to ascend, to mount, to record, an old picture of feet placed either side of a raised stand or dais; and it tops the tenth heavenly stem, 癸, the last of the cycle, its own picture now hard to recover.

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