履
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shoe; to tread on
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 15
- Radical
- 尸 +12
- Structure
- Upper-left enclosure 左上包
- Traditional
- 履
- Common rank
- #2,060
- Unicode
- U+5C65
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 履 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A person 尸 walking 彳; 復 also provides the pronunciation
How to remember it
footwear · Heisig RSH #2145
flag + queue + double back
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 履
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 瓜田不纳履，李下不整冠 | lit. don't tie your shoelaces in a melon patch, and don't adjust your hat under a plum tre… | |
| 履约保证金 | performance bond (international trade) | |
| 半履带车 | half-track (vehicle with wheels at the front and continuous tracks in the rear) | |
| 西装革履 | dressed in Western-style clothes; impeccably attired | |
| 如履薄冰 | (lit.) as if walking on thin ice (idiom); (fig.) extremely cautious | |
| 草履虫 | paramecium | |
| 履历表 | curriculum vitae (CV); resume | |
| 履历片 | curriculum vitae (CV) | |
| 履行 | to fulfill (one's obligations); to carry out (a task); to implement (an agreement); to per… | |
| 履新 | (of an official) to take up a new post; (literary) to celebrate the New Year | |
| 履带 | caterpillar track (propulsion system used on bulldozers etc); (literary) shoes and belt | |
| 履约 | to keep a promise; to honor an agreement | |
| 履险如夷 | lit. to make one's way through a dangerous pass as if walking on level ground (idiom); fig… | |
| 步履 | gait; to walk | |
| 衣履 | clothes and shoes | |
| 步履维艰 | to have difficulty walking (idiom); to walk with difficulty | |
| 郑人买履 | (lit.) the person from Zheng 鄭|郑[Zheng4] who wanted to buy shoes (an allusion to an ancien… | |
| 履职 | to fulfill one's job or duty | |
| 履历 | background (academic and work); curriculum vitae; résumé | |
| 削足适履 | to cut the feet to fit the shoes (idiom); to force sth to fit (as to a Procrustean bed); i… |