Skip to content
BishuРусскийTrain

脚 — foot; leg; base

foot; leg; base; classifier for kicks

Pinyin
jiǎo · jué
Strokes
11
HSK level
HSK 3
Handwriting
recognition only

This character has more than one reading — jiǎo, jué — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.

How to write 脚: 11 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

脚 — 11 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

Build a printable practice sheet with 脚

Words with 脚 in the HSK syllabus: 7

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 脚jiǎofoot; leg; base; classifier for kicksHSK 3
  2. 脚步jiǎobùfootstep; stepHSK 5
  3. 脚印jiǎoyìnfootprintHSK 6
  4. 绊脚石bànjiǎoshístumbling block; obstacleHSK 7–9
  5. 脚踏实地jiǎotāshídìto have one's feet firmly planted on the ground; realistic without flights of fancyHSK 7–9
  6. 手脚shǒujiǎohand and foot; movement of limbs; action; trickHSK 7–9
  7. 指手画脚zhǐshǒu-huàjiǎoto gesticulate while talkingHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.