舉手投足

举
舉
手
手
投
投
足
足
one's every movement (idiom) / comportment / gestures

Characters and words in 舉手投足

举
舉
jǔ = ju + Ø3
to lift / to hold up / to cite / to enumerate / to act / to raise / to choose / to elect / act / move / deed
举 = 兴 + 干 : In the space station Zeus eats some dried fruits as he suddenly finds a sea star in the bag. Baffled, he lifts up the sea star to have a closer look.
举
舉
手
手
to raise a hand / to put up one's hand (as signal)
手
shǒu = sh + ou3
hand / (formal) to hold / person engaged in certain types of work / person skilled in certain types of work / personal(ly) / convenient / classifier for skill / CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1]
Mnemonic symbol: a baseball glove. Sherlock Holmes (sh) is trying out his new baseball glove (手) in the outhouse's living room (ou3).
投
tóu = t + ou2
to cast / to send / to throw oneself (into the river etc) / to seek refuge / to place oneself into the hands of
投 = 扌 + 殳 : Tecumseh (t) is exerting an ancient sport of his tribe in the outhouse's kitchen (ou2). He is hurling (投) a halberd (殳) as far as he can using a toy claw (扌).
足
jù = ju + Ø4
excessive
足
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.

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