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足 — foot; leg; sufficient

foot; leg; sufficient; ample; as much as; fully

Pinyin
zú · jù
Strokes
7
HSK level
HSK 2
Handwriting
recognition only

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

How to write 足: 7 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.

足 — 7 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

Build a printable practice sheet with 足

Words with 足 in the HSK syllabus: 21

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. 足球zúqiúsoccer; football; a soccer ball; a footballHSK 2
  2. 不足bùzúinsufficient; lacking; deficiency; not enoughHSK 5
  3. 充足chōngzúadequate; sufficient; abundantHSK 5
  4. 满足mǎnzúto satisfy; to meet; satisfied; contentHSK 5
  5. 足够zúgòuenough; sufficientHSK 5
  6. 十足shízúample; complete; hundred percent; a pure shadeHSK 6
  7. 足zúfoot; leg; sufficient; ample; as much as; fullyHSK 6
  8. 足以zúyǐsufficient to...; so much so that; so thatHSK 6
  9. 长足chángzúremarkableHSK 7–9
  10. 富足fùzúrich; plentifulHSK 7–9
  11. 画蛇添足huàshé-tiānzúlit. draw legs on a snake; fig. to ruin the effect by adding sth superfluousHSK 7–9
  12. 举足轻重jǔzú-qīngzhòngto play a critical role; influentialHSK 7–9
  13. 立足lìzúto stand; to have a footing; to be establishedHSK 7–9
  14. 美中不足měizhōng-bùzúeverything is fine except for one small defect; the fly in the ointmentHSK 7–9
  15. 微不足道wēibùzúdàonegligible; insignificantHSK 7–9
  16. 知足zhīzúcontent with one's situation; to know contentmentHSK 7–9
  17. 知足常乐zhīzú-chánglèsatisfied with what one hasHSK 7–9
  18. 驻足zhùzúto stop; to haltHSK 7–9
  19. 足不出户zúbùchūhùto not leave one's home; to stay indoorsHSK 7–9
  20. 足迹zújìfootprint; track; spoorHSK 7–9
  21. 足智多谋zúzhì-duōmóuresourceful; full of stratagemsHSK 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.