HSK 3 · Body

脚 jiǎo “foot body part” in Chinese

Traditional 腳

What 脚 means

  1. foot body part
  2. foot
  3. leg (of an animal or an object)
  4. base (of an object)
  5. classifier for kicks

Measure word 双 shuāng or 只 zhī · 一双脚 yì shuāng jiǎo

How to say 脚

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale脚jiǎo3rd tone, dipping

脚 in a sentence

  1. 不要把脚放在桌子上。

    Búyào bǎ jiǎo fàng zài zhuōzi shàng.

    Don’t put your feet on the table.

    Sentence #13054932 from Tatoeba

  2. 他脚受伤了，不能再继续踢足球。

    Tā jiǎo shòushāng le, bùnéng zài jìxù tī zúqiú.

    He’s hurt his foot, so he can’t keep playing football.

    Sentence #398351 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 小心脚下。

    Xiǎoxīn jiǎo xià.

    Watch your step.

    Sentence #826193 from Tatoeba

How 脚 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 脚 (jiǎo) with each of its parts in a different colour
脚jiǎofoot
  • ⺼meat form of 肉 · ròuMeaning part
  • 却still · quèSound part

⺼ hints at the meaning (meat); 却 (què) hints at the sound. Compare it with jiǎo.

How to write 脚

脚 11 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

脚 (jiǎo) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 脚 (jiǎo). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 脚

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FAQs

脚 (jiǎo) means “foot body part” or “foot”. It is an HSK 3 word.
Say it jiǎo: jiǎo with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 脚 is written 腳. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 双 (shuāng) or 只 (zhī). For example, one foot body part is 一双脚 (yì shuāng jiǎo).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type jiao with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 脚 from the suggestions. Typing jiao into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
脚 is an HSK 3 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.