趿

verb

Meanings

  1. 1 to wear shoes with the heels trodden down; to shuffle along in slippers

Examples

Tā tā la zhe tuōxié qù kāimén.
He shuffled out in his slippers to open the door.
Bié tā la zhe xié, hǎohǎo chuān shàng.
Don't shuffle with your shoes trodden down; put them on properly.

Tips

usage
趿 almost always appears as 趿拉 — to shuffle around with the backs of your shoes crushed under your heels, like wearing them as slippers. It is colloquial and often a mild scolding.

Components

radical
foot; leg
Left is the foot radical , a leg above a footprint. It marks the character as something done with the feet — here a dragging, heel-down way of walking.
phonetic
to reach (phonetic)
Right is , here only for sound, giving the tā reading after a shift. The same phonetic appears in (to inhale) and (level).

Stroke Order

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