legs

Origin & mnemonic

This radical derives from a pictograph of human legs, simplified into two crossing strokes. In ancient pictographic script, it represented movement or bodily action.

Mnemonic: Two strokes crossing like legs of a standing or walking person.

• 克kè🔊

  to be able to

  HSK 2

  7 strokes

• 免miǎn🔊

  to excuse sb

  HSK 7

  7 strokes

• 兑duì🔊

  to cash

  7 strokes

• 兕sì🔊

  animal cited in ancient texts, resembling a buffalo (some say rhinoceros or female rhinoceros)

  7 strokes

• 儿ér🔊

  child

  8 strokes

• 兔tù🔊

  variant of 兔[tu4]

  HSK 5

  8 strokes

• 兖yǎn🔊

  used in 兗州|兖州[Yan3 zhou1] (the name of a place in Shandong)

  8 strokes

• 兘shǐ🔊

  old variant of 始[shi3]

  9 strokes

• 兙shi2kè🔊

  (old) contracted variant of 十克[shi2 ke4]

  9 strokes

• 党dǎng🔊

  party

  HSK 6

  10 strokes

• 兛qiàn1ke🔊

  (old) contracted variant of 千克[qian1 ke4]

  10 strokes