HSK Guide

部首 34to go, to follow on foot; to arrive from behind

zhǐ (third tone, dipping)

to go, to follow on foot; to arrive from behind

部首 343 画0 汉字

Where the shape comes from

A foot pointing downward, toes trailing — the same drawing used across several radicals for a leg in motion, here reduced to its simplest stroke pattern. A foot arriving at a mouth-shaped opening 口 gives 各, each, the sense that everyone arrives separately at their own place; the dictionary also files 处, to reside, and 备, to prepare, under this shape, though their own histories are more complicated than the foot alone explains.

汉字 filed under

No published character on HSK Guide is filed under this radical yet. 汉字库.