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.

• 儿ér🔊

  child

  2 strokes

• 兀wù🔊

  (literary) rising to a height; towering

  3 strokes

• 元yuán🔊

  currency unit (esp. Chinese yuan)

  HSK 1

  4 strokes

• 允yǔn🔊

  just

  4 strokes

• 兄xiōng🔊

  elder brother

  5 strokes

• 先xiān🔊

  beforehand; first; earlier

  HSK 1

  6 strokes

• 光guāng🔊

  light; ray (CL:道[dao4])

  HSK 3

  6 strokes

• 兆zhào🔊

  (bound form) omen

  6 strokes

• 充chōng🔊

  sufficient; full

  HSK 7

  6 strokes

• 尧Yáo🔊

  surname Yao

  6 strokes

• 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

• 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

• 兜dōu🔊

  old variant of 兜[dou1]

  HSK 7

  11 strokes

• 兝fèn1ke🔊

  (old) contracted variant of 分克[fen1 ke4]

  11 strokes

• 兞hào2ke🔊

  (old) contracted variant of 毫克[hao2 ke4]

  11 strokes

• 兟shēn🔊

  to advance

  12 strokes

• 兡bài3ke🔊

  (old) contracted variant of 百克[bai3 ke4]

  13 strokes

• 兢jīng🔊

  to be fearful

  14 strokes

• 兣li2kè🔊

  (old) contracted variant of 釐克|厘克[li2 ke4]

  16 strokes