2indexing radical depicting a beast's footprint pressing the ground
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history
The character lent its meaning to the verb 蹂 (róu, to trample), which now carries the load in modern Chinese.
usage
禸 never stands alone in modern writing. The two characters a learner is most likely to see filed under it are 禽 (qín, fowl / poultry) and 离 (lí, to depart) — in both, 禸 sits at the bottom as a structural piece rather than a meaning clue.
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Animal TrackKangxi #114
Tiny indexing radical with almost no productivity. Useful mainly because two reasonably common characters — 禽 and 离 — are filed under it. The semantic link to 'animal footprint' is invisible to learners; treat 禸 as a Kangxi bookkeeping slot for these compounds.
