足

jù = ju + Ø4

excessive

zú = zu + Ø2

foot / to be sufficient / ample

足 = 龰 + 口 : Mnemonic symbol: a football. Zapatista Zebra (zu) wants to pimp his football (足) in the space station's kitchen (Ø2). He thinks that a few more vitamins wouldn't hurt, so he extracts the vitamins from a mandarin (口) with a syringe (龰) to inject them into his football.

足 character breakdown

足
- 口
- 龰
  - 人
    - 丿
    - ㇏
  - ⺊
    - 一
    - 丨

口

kǒu = k + ou3

mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls

Mnemonic symbol: 口 shall be represented by a mandarin. Karl Marx (k-) is enjoying a mandarin in the outhouse's living room (ou3).

龰

Character component without intrinsic meaning

龰 = ⺊ + 人 : Neanderthal man (人) accidentally pierced his foot with a pennant (⺊). Now he'll have to get an injection against tetanus. This character will thus be represented by a syringe.

Characters with 足 as component

路

lù = lu + Ø4

surname Lu

路

lù = lu + Ø4

road / CL:條|条[tiao2] / journey / route / line (bus etc) / sort; kind

路 = ⻊ + 各 : In the space station's bathroom Lenny Lemur dreams of becoming a football star. He imagines walking down to earth on a road of stars, his football in his hands.

跟

ge̅n = g + (e)n1

heel / to follow closely / to go with / (of a woman) to marry sb / with / compared with / to / towards / and (joining two nouns)

跟 = ⻊ + 艮 : Guy Fawkes marries a cowboy in front of the encampment and wants to follow him forever. The cowboy wears cowboy boots and chews chewing gum all the time, even during the ceremony.

跑

pǎo = p + ao3

to run / to run away / to escape / to run around (on errands etc) / (of a gas or liquid) to leak or evaporate / (verb complement) away / off

跑 = ⻊ + 包 : Pinocchio stole a colorful handbag from someone in the aorta and runs as fast as he can. He didn't have time to look for which direction he actually was heading, so he stumbles and falls head-first into a big cowboy boot.

跑

páo = p + ao2

(of an animal) to paw (the ground)

跳

tiào = ti + ao4

to jump / to hop / to skip over / to bounce / to palpitate

跳 = ⻊ + 兆 : Mother Teresa (ti) and the vulture (兆) are playing leapfrog (跳) inside of the aorta's bathroom (ao4) while wearing cowboy boots (⻊). They jump (跳) over each other without end.

距

jù = ju + Ø4

at a distance of / distance / to be apart

距 = ⻊ + 巨 : The giant Leshan Buddha (巨) is trying out his new cowboy boot (⻊) by kicking Zeus (ju) out of the space station's bathroom's (Ø4) window. Zeus doesn't even know what happened until he sees the boot from a distance (距).

促

cù = cu + Ø4

urgent / hurried / to urge / to promote / to urge haste / close / intimate

促 = 亻 + 足 : Kitty Cat (cu) is urging (促) Rosa Luxemburg (亻) into buying her last 8326 footballs (足), stating again and again that this is a special opportunity that will not come back anytime soon and so on. Indeed she already talked her into a corner in the space station's bathroom (Ø4).

跨

kuà = ku + a4

to step across / to stride over / to straddle / to span

跨 = ⻊ + 夸 : Karl Koala (ku) found a strange quark (夸) in the ashram's bathroom (a4) and to not step on it with his cowboy boots (⻊) he steps across (跨) the strange quark.

蹈

dǎo = d + ao3

to tread on / to trample / to stamp / to fulfill / Taiwan pr. [dao4]

蹈 = ⻊ + 舀 : Don Quixote (d) is trampling (蹈) through the aorta (ao3) practicing a folk dance (蹈) in his cowboy boots (⻊), but he finds there is a small stone in one of his boots and he has to scoop it out (舀) before he can continue.