跺

duò
verb #27,189

Meanings

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

Examples

HSK 5
Tā qì de zhí duòjiǎo.
She was so angry she kept stamping her feet.
HSK 7-9
Háizi bùmǎnyì, zài dìshàng duò le jǐ xià jiǎo.
The child, dissatisfied, stamped his feet on the ground a few times.

Tips

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

Components

radical
足 zú
foot; leg
Foot radical on the left, knee above foot, the standard marker for any leg-led action. Carries the meaning of 跺 directly: stamping the foot, often as a gesture of impatience, anger, or insistence. Same family as 跳 jump, 踩 step on, 踢 kick, all built by pairing 足 with a phonetic to name a kind of foot motion.
phonetic
朵 duǒ
measure word for flowers
Right side 朵 supplies the sound, duǒ shifting to duò, a regular tone change. 朵'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

跺 duò