KANAE
Character · The body

足

たる taruあし ashiだそく dasoku

foot, leg

Composition

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Origin

A drawing of a leg: the knee above, the foot planted below — a pictogram of the whole limb.

In the thoughts

  1. 足るtaruto be enough
  2. 蛇足dasokusnake legs

Proverbs carrying this character

  1. 116 Know what is enough.
  2. 223 Don't swat it! The fly wrings its hands, wrings its feet.
  3. 248 Legs on a snake.
  4. 296 A house that does not leak, meals that end hunger: that is enough.
  5. 301 I know only what is enough.

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