gēn

heel

to follow closely; to go with; (of a woman) to marry sb; with; compared with; to; towards; and (joining two nouns)

foot (足) + phonetic (艮) = heel, to follow closely

足 grounds the meaning in the foot — the heel is at the base of every step. 艮 mainly carries the sound gēn; the foot radical does all the semantic work.

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A trigram from the I ChingPhonetic
FootSemantic

Words with 跟

高跟鞋

gāo gēn xié

high-heeled shoes

鞋跟

xié gēn

heel (of a shoe)

哪儿跟哪儿

nǎ r gēn nǎ r

what's that have to do with it?

好男不跟女斗

hǎo nán bù gēn nǚ dòu

a real man doesn't fight with womenfolk (idiom)

后跟

hòu gēn

heel (part of a foot)

后跟提带

hòu gēn tí dài

backstrap (of a shoe)

打跟头

dǎ gēn tou

to turn a somersault

折跟头

zhē gēn tou

to do a somersault

摔跟头

shuāi gēn tou

to fall

栽跟头

zāi gēn tou

to fall head over heels

站稳脚跟

zhàn wěn jiǎo gēn

to stand firmly

紧跟

jǐn gēn

to follow precisely

More characters with 足