蹄
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hoof; pig's trotters
- Strokes
- 16
- Radical
- 足 +9
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 蹄
- Common rank
- #2,278
- Unicode
- U+8E44
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Formation & memory
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Words with 蹄
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 人有失手，马有失蹄 | lit. just as humans make mistakes, so can a horse stumble (idiom); fig. everyone makes mis… | |
| 有蹄动物 | ungulates (animals with hooves) | |
| 马失前蹄 | lit. the horse loses its front hooves; fig. sudden failure through miscalculation or inatt… | |
| 马蹄星云 | Omega or Horseshoe Nebula M17 | |
| 马不停蹄 | unrelenting; without stopping to rest | |
| 马蹄形 | horseshoe shape | |
| 马蹄铁 | horseshoe | |
| 奇蹄目 | Perissodactyla; order of odd-toed ungulate (including horse, tapir, rhinoceros) | |
| 奇蹄类 | Perissodactyla (odd-toed ungulates, such as horses, zebras etc) | |
| 蹄子 | hoof; (old) wench; hussy | |
| 马蹄 | horse's hoof; horseshoe; Chinese water chestnut (Eleocharis dulcis or E. congesta) | |
| 马蹄莲 | calla; calla lily | |
| 偶蹄目 | Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates, such as pigs, cows, giraffes etc) | |
| 铁蹄 | iron hoof (of the oppressor) | |
| 蹄印 | hoofprint | |
| 口蹄疫 | foot-and-mouth disease (FMD); aphthous fever | |
| 偶蹄类 | Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates, such as pigs, cows, giraffes etc) | |
| 马蹄蟹 | horseshoe crab (Tachypleus tridentatus) | |
| 猪蹄 | pig trotters | |
| 偶蹄 | artiodactyl (zoology) |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 帝 — compare how they read.