duò
verb #27,189

Meanings

  1. 1 to stamp one's feet
  2. 2 to stomp

Examples

Tā qì de zhí duòjiǎo.
She was so angry she kept stamping her feet.
Háizi bùmǎn yì, zài dìshàng duò le jǐ xià jiǎo.
The child, dissatisfied, stamped his feet on the ground a few times.

Tips

usage
almost always appears as 跺脚 (to stamp one's foot). It conveys frustration, impatience, or strong emotion. The foot radical (⻊) makes the meaning easy to remember.

Components

radical
foot; leg
Foot radical on the left — knee above foot, the standard marker for any leg-led action. Carries the meaning of directly: stamping the foot, often as a gesture of impatience, anger, or insistence. Same family as jump, step on, kick — all built by pairing with a phonetic to name a kind of foot motion.
phonetic
duǒ
measure word for flowers (here phonetic)
Right side supplies the sound — duǒ shifting to duò, a regular tone change. 's flower-counting meaning has no role here; pure phonetic. The compound 跺脚 'stamp one's foot' is by far the most common collocation, capturing both the angry-mother gesture and the dancer's emphatic beat.

Stroke Order

duò