履

履 U+5C65, 履 ← 層[U+5C64] CJK Unified Ideographs 屦 →[U+5C66] 履 U+F9DF, 履 ← 吏[U+F9DE] CJK Compatibility Ideographs 易 →[U+F9E0]

履 (Kangxi radical 44, 尸+12, 15 strokes, Cangjie input 尸竹人水 (SHOE), four-corner 77247, composition ⿸尸復)

• 𭌆, 𭗫, 𢖓, 𱡋

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 303, character 41
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7799
• Dae Jaweon: page 602, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 980, character 3
• Unihan data for U+5C65

• Unihan data for U+F9DF

trad. 履 simp. # 履 alternative forms

In the bronze inscriptions, an ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 眉 + 頁 (“person with prominent head”) + 止 (“foot”) + 舟 (“shoe or (shoe-shaped) boat”). Possibly 履 (OC *riʔ) is also phono-semantic (形聲 / 形声) with phonetic component 眉 (OC *mril).

According to Shuowen, ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 尸 + 彳 (“road”) + 夊 (“foot”) + 舟 (“(shoe-shaped) boat”). Possibly phono-semantic (形聲 / 形声), with 尸 (OC *hli) functioning as a phonetic component corrupted from 眉 (OC *mril). Comparing Qin bamboo slip script, Shuowen seal’s 舟 was corrupted from 自, and Qin’s 自 was simplified from 頁.

Modern form is a compound of 尸 + 復 (“return”).

履

1. shoe; footwear
2. foot
3. territory
4. to tread on; to walk on
5. to put on shoes
6. to ascend the throne; to assume (a role)
7. to experience; to undergo
8. to fulfil; to implement; to carry out
9. to carry out personally
10. tenth hexagram of the I Ching

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A01097
• “履”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014-
• “履”, in 臺灣客語辭典 [Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka] (overall work in Mandarin and Hakka), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2022.
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “履”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 147.

(Jōyō kanji)

1. footwear
2. to fulfill or carry out
3. to wear, esp. shoes or clothes on the lower body – see 履(は)く (haku)

• Go-on: り (ri, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: り (ri, Jōyō)
• Kun: はく (haku, 履く, Jōyō)、くつ (kutsu, 履)、ふむ (fumu, 履む)

Kanji in this term 履 くつGrade: S kun’yomi For pronunciation and definitions of 履 – see the following entry. 【靴くつ】S [noun] footwear, footgear: a shoe, (a pair of) shoes (This term, 履, is an alternative spelling (uncommon) of the above term.)

• “△履”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎[2] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015-2026

履 (eumhun 신 리 (sin ri), word-initial (South Korea) 신 이 (sin i))

1. hanja form? of 리/이 (“footwear, shoes”)
2. hanja form? of 리/이 (“walk on”)
3. hanja form? of 리/이 (“tread”)

• 履歷書 (이력서): curriculum vitae, resume
• 履行 (이행): implementation

履: Hán Nôm readings: giầy, giày, lí

1. footwear

• Nom Foundation