Meaning & readings
tracks, mark, print, impression
On’yomi セキ
Kun’yomi あと
Origin
The left part 足 means foot or legs, the root idea of physical movement and walking. The right part 亦 functions as a sound hint for pronunciation. Together, these components picture what a foot leaves behind—the marks and impressions created when someone walks or treads on a surface. The character thus came to mean tracks, prints, and traces of any kind, capturing the physical evidence of movement or action that has passed.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Compound ideographic (combined meanings).
Components
- 足
- 亦
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 13
- Kangxi radical
- 157
- Grade
- Jōyō (secondary school)
- Frequency rank
- #953 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 1
- Unicode
- U+08DE1