赤脚 (chì jiǎo) — barefoot, barefooted | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

barefootbarefooted

赤脚。
Tā měi tiān chì jiǎo zài shā tān shàng sàn bù.
He takes a walk barefoot on the beach every day.
赤脚。
Nà ge chì jiǎo de xiǎo nán hái zài cǎo dì shàng bēn pǎo.
The barefoot little boy is running on the grass.
赤脚。
Xià tiān rén men xǐ huan chì jiǎo zǒu lù.
In summer people like to walk barefoot.

Characters in this word

Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

赤 is a stylized form showing 大 (a person) and 火 (fire), depicting a person by a fire.

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 腳; 脚 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú

⺼Written in full as肉ròumeat, body

Sound part声符shēngfú

卻

卻què腳jiǎo

The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The traditional form 腳 uses ⺼ for a body part and 卻 for the sound; the simplified 脚 is a later shorthand.

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