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Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N1

723 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 15

Meaning: step, trample, carry through, appraise, evade payment

Kunyomi: ふ.む, ふ.まえる

Onyomi: トウ

Composition: 足 沓

踏

Radical

Radical: 足

Meaning: foot

Reading: あし

Frequency: 580

Alternative forms:

𧾷(alt radical position hen)

足

Examples

Onyomi Examples

踏破 (トウハ) travelling (a long and difficult journey) on foot, walking (all the way) across, travelling through, hiking across, traversing, travelling all over (e.g. a country), visiting all the major locations (of a region, etc.)

踏襲 (トウシュウ) following (a precedent, former policy, etc.), continuing with, sticking to, observing

前人未到 (ゼンジンミトウ) untrodden (region, field of study, etc.), unprecedented (discovery, achievement, etc.)

高踏 (コウトウ) highbrow, aloof, transcendent

Kunyomi Examples

踏む (ふむ) to step on, to tread on, to trample on, to set foot on (e.g. foreign soil), to stand on, to visit, to experience, to undergo, to follow (rules, principles, etc.), to go through (e.g. formalities), to complete, to estimate, to guess, to judge, to value, to appraise, to rhyme, to succeed to (e.g. the throne)

踏まえる (ふまえる) to be based on, to take into account, to build upon, to have origin in, to have one's feet firmly planted on, to plant oneself on

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