Kanji · JLPT N5 · Level 9
足 foot, leg
- Meaning
- foot, leg
- On reading
- ソク
- Kun reading
- あし・た(りる)
Memory hook
口 sitting over a leg shape: a knee over a foot. It also means 'enough'. ソク in compounds, あし foot or た(りる) to be enough.
Words that use 足
足
あし
foot, leg
足りる
たりる
to be enough
How to write 足
Stroke order · 7 strokes
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- 1. Vertical.
- 2. Horizontal, then turn down.
- 3. Horizontal.
- 4. Vertical.
- 5. Horizontal.
- 6. The sweep down to the left.
- 7. The diagonal down to the right.
Stroke data from KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
General rules
- Top to bottom, left to right.
- Horizontal strokes before crossing vertical ones (十 = horizontal, then vertical).
- Outside before inside - but close a box last (口).
- A vertical that passes all the way through comes last (中).
- Left-falling diagonal before right-falling (大).
足 is taught on day 30 of the kanji course, alongside 目 耳 口 手, with two writing passes and a short quiz.