(dǎo)

to tread/to skip (dance)

How 蹈 is written

Strokes
17
Radical
— foot
Traditional
Simplified
(unchanged)

Components

  • foot
  • claw/talon
  • mortar

Common words using 蹈

舞蹈 wǔdǎo
dance
手舞足蹈 shǒuwǔzúdǎo
hands dance and feet trip (idiom); dancing and gesticulating for joy
重蹈覆轍 chóngdǎofùzhé
to follow the track of an overturned cart; to repeat a disastrous policy
循規蹈矩 xúnguīdǎojǔ
to follow the compass and go with the set square (idiom); to follow the rules inflexibly; to act according to convention
舞蹈家 wǔdǎojiā
dancer
赴湯蹈火 fùtāngdǎohuǒ
to go through water and tread on fire (idiom); not afraid of any difficulty
重蹈 chóngdǎo
to repeat; to follow the same road as

蹈 in a sentence

現代舞蹈很難懂。

Xiàndài wǔdǎo hěn nán dǒng.

“Modern dance is hard to understand.”

How common is 蹈?

蹈 is the 2,653rd most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 98.8% of all running text.

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