kuǐ
noun #90,983

Meanings

  1. 1 a half-step (one single stride of one foot)

Examples

Bù jī kuǐ bù, wúyǐzhìqiānlǐ.
Without accumulating half-steps, one cannot reach a thousand li.
Jùdà de chénggōng shì yì kuǐ yí kuǐ jīlěi qǐlái de.
Great success is built up from each small half-step.

Tips

history
In ancient usage, lifting one foot once is a (half-step) and moving both feet is a (full step). The line from Xunzi's 'Encouraging Learning' teaches that big goals come from small steady steps.

Components

radical
foot
The foot radical on the left. It marks as a word about walking and the legs, here a single stride.
phonetic
guī
jade tablet
Supplies the sound. Standalone is guī, drifted to kuǐ here. The same phonetic gives the sound in and .

Stroke Order

kuǐ