Radicals 足 刀 日

I said I was going to post 3 a day, but I kind of didn't stick to that promise. Ah well.

Here are 3 more radicals for you to learn today.

足， ⻊ = foot

This character exists as a standalone character, but it has a slightly different form that appears on the left hand side of some characters, particularly those to do with feet.

足 - foot
跑 - run
踢 - kick (踢足球 - play football/soccer)
跃 - leap, jump
蹦 - leap, jump, spring
跳 - leap, jump, spring, bounce (the list of English translations keeps growing...)
跟 - with, to follow
踩 - step on, trample

刀，刂 = sword, knife

One way of remembering that the two characters are related is that the second one is really just the first one with the top bit removed and the left bit squished a bit closer towards the right bit- wait, that wasn't really all too helpful... There's also a third form that I don't know how to type and can't find one that I can copy or paste (though to be honest I'm not really looking very hard). It looks like the top of the character 色 or 龟.

刀 - sword, knife
剪 - scissors, shears
色 - colour
龟 - turtle
兔 - rabbit
划 - stroke (of a Chinese character), to scratch
切 - cut
免 - avoid, avert, escape (免费 - free of charge)
刚 - just
别 - other, don't

日 - sun, day

This character evolved from a pictograph. I'm sure you can find its origins on a quick Google search.

日 - sun, day
旧 - old
旦 - dawn
晓 - dawn, daybreak
显 - apparent, obvious, show, display, illustrious and influential
明 - bright (昆明 - Kunming, capital of Yunnan Province in China, which is where the Hanyu Qiao Chinese Proficiency Competition is going to be held this year)
时 - time
旭 - rising sun
早 - early, morning
晚 - night
量 - to measure
晴 - sunny