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蹋

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Old HSK
Level 6
Strokes
17
Radical
足 +10
Structure
Left–right 左右
Traditional
蹋
Common rank
#5,258
Unicode
U+8E4B

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Formation & memory

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How 蹋 is formed

Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

足 meaning “foot” + 日 sound ( rì )

Words with 蹋

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

WordPinyinMeaning
糟蹋 zāo tà to waste; to spoil; to ruin; to wreck; to insult; to humiliate; to defile (a woman); to ra…
蹧蹋 zāo tà variant of 糟蹋[zao1 ta4]

Sound family

Characters sharing the sound component 日 — compare how they read.

CharacterPinyinMeaning
日 sound part rì sun; day; daytime
耆 qí man of sixty; aged, old
汨 mì to sink; a river in Hunan where Qu Yuan drowned himself
遢 tā careless, negligent, slipshod