dǎo
component #20,556

Meanings

  1. 1 to tread on
  2. 2 to stamp

Examples

Wǔdǎo
dance
Dǎo hǎi
to jump into the sea

Tips

usage
foot + to scoop — stamping feet rhythmically as in dance

Components

radical
foot
Left-side foot radical — a leg with the foot drawn at the base. Carries the meaning: is a foot action — to stamp, tread, dance. Indexes the character in the foot family alongside to run, to jump, to step, to trample.
phonetic
yǎo
to scoop; ladle (here phonetic)
Right side supplies the sound — yǎo drifting to dǎo along an old onset alternation. The 'scoop, ladle' meaning is not transferred; is purely a sound tag here. Same phonetic appears in rice plant, to pinch — chars sharing the central mortar element.

Stroke Order

dǎo