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

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.

跑

páo = p + ao2

(of an animal) to paw (the ground)

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.

捉

zhuo̅ = zhu + o1

to clutch / to grab / to capture

捉 = 扌 + 足 : In front of the observatory (o1) Julian Giant Squid (zhu) catches (捉) a football (足) using eight toy claws (扌).

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.

踩

cǎi = c + ai3

to step on / to tread / to stamp / to press a pedal / to pedal (a bike) / (online) to downvote

踩 = ⻊ + 采 : The King of Chu (c) is playing his guitar in the airplane (ai3). Every time he looses his plectrum (采) he quickly steps (踩) on it with his left cowboy boot (⻊) to prevent it from rolling away.

踩

跴

cǎi = c + ai3

variant of 踩[cai3]

跃

躍

yuè = yu + e4

to jump / to leap

跃 = ⻊ + 夭 : Snow White (夭) and Yu the Great (yu) are sack racing in the elevator's bathroom (e4), just that they are not using sacks but huge cowboy boots (⻊). They are competing for who can leap (跃) farther.

踊

yǒng = yu + (e)ng3

leap

踊 = ⻊ + 甬 : Wearing cowboy boots (⻊) Yu the Great (yu) is leaping (踊) over a yongzhong bell (甬) in the middle of the engine ((e)ng3).

踊

踴

yǒng = yu + (e)ng3

leap

踊 = ⻊ + 甬 : Wearing cowboy boots (⻊) Yu the Great (yu) is leaping (踊) over a yongzhong bell (甬) in the middle of the engine ((e)ng3).

跪

guì = gu + ei4

to kneel

跪 = ⻊ + 危 : Gitta Giraffe (gu) is kneeling down (跪) in the Eiffel Tower's bathroom (ei4) to read a danger ahead-sign (危). It wars her of the cowboy boots further ahead (⻊).