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

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).

趴

pa̅ = p + a1

to lie on one's stomach / to lean forward, resting one's upper body (on a desktop etc) / (Tw) percent

趴 = ⻊ + 八 : Pinocchio (p) is getting hurt by something in his cowboy boot (⻊), so he has to lean forward (趴) to take it off and empty it. Indeed an eight-ball (八) falls out of the cowboy boot as Pinocchio flips it upside-down.

蹭

cèng = c + (e)ng4

to rub against / to walk slowly / (coll.) to freeload

蹭 = 足 + 曾 : The firefly (曾) is too lazy to fly on its own. To get to the other side of the engine's bathroom ((e)ng4) it is freeloading (蹭) by hanging on to a football (足) thrown by the King of Chu (c).

跤

jia̅o = ji + ao1

a tumble / a fall

跤 = 足 + 交 : Linus Pauling (交) tries to catch a football (足) thrown to him by Joan of Arc (ji) in front of the aorta (ao1), but the throw was so hard that he tumbles and falls (跤).

蹦

bèng = b + (e)ng4

to jump / to bounce / to hop

蹦 = ⻊ + 崩 : Beelzebub (b) is bungee-jumping (蹦) into a cowboy boot (⻊) in the engine's bathroom ((e)ng4) but the bungee cord is too long, so Beelzebub collapses and demises (崩).

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.

踢

ti̅ = ti + Ø1

to kick / to play (e.g. soccer) / (slang) butch (in a lesbian relationship)

踢 = ⻊ + 易 : Mother Teresa (ti) was unable to solve a very easy puzzle (易) in front of the space station (Ø1). Angrily she kicks (踢) the puzzle out of orbit with her big cowboy boot (⻊).

踪

蹤

zo̅ng = zu + (e)ng1

footprint / trace / tracks

踪 = ⻊ + 宗 : In front of the engine ((e)ng1) Zapatista Zebra (zu) is walking over a blackboard (宗) wearing cowboy boots (⻊), leaving footprints (踪) all over it.

跌

die̅ = di + e1

to fall / to tumble / to trip / (of prices etc) to drop / Taiwan pr. [die2]

跌 = ⻊ + 失 : In front of the elevator (e1) Dorothy Gale (di) tumbles (跌) over a cowboy boot (⻊) and falls (跌) into a lost+found box (失).

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.

路

lù = lu + Ø4

surname Lu