脚 (jiǎo): meaning and stroke order

脚 in our stories

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• 一个人最先画完，可是又给蛇画了脚，结果酒被别人喝了。

  yí gè rén zuì xiān huà wán kěshì yòu gěi shé huà le jiǎo jiéguǒ jiǔ bèi biérén hē le

  One man finished first, but then drew feet on his snake, and in the end someone else drank the wine.

  From the story Drawing legs on a snake HSK 3

• 盘古担心天和地会重新合在一起，就头顶着天，脚踩着地，用自己的身体把它们撑开。

  Pángǔ dānxīn tiān hé dì huì chóngxīn hé zài yìqǐ jiù tóu dǐng zhe tiān jiǎo cǎi zhe dì yòng zìjǐ de shēntǐ bǎ tāmen chēng kāi

  Afraid that heaven and earth would close up again, Pangu held up the sky with his head and pressed down the earth with his feet, keeping them apart with his own body.

  From the story Pangu separates heaven and earth HSK 7–9 · Level 7

• 书里说，有一座发鸠山，山上住着一种小鸟，头上有花纹，嘴是白的，脚是红的，叫起来像在喊自己的名字：“精卫！精卫！”

  shū lǐ shuō yǒu yí zuò Fājiū Shān shān shàng zhù zhe yì zhǒng xiǎo niǎo tóu shàng yǒu huāwén zuǐ shì bái de jiǎo shì hóng de jiào qǐlai xiàng zài hǎn zìjǐ de míngzi Jīngwèi Jīngwèi

  It says that on Mount Fajiu there lives a small bird with a patterned head, a white beak and red feet, whose cry sounds as if it is calling its own name: "Jingwei! Jingwei!"

  From the story Jingwei fills the sea HSK 7–9 · Level 8