履

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

• 𢖓, 𭌆, 𭗫

• KangXi: 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

Historical forms of the character 履
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

According to Shuowen, ideogrammic compound (會意) : 尸 + 彳 (“road”) + 夊 (“foot”) + 舟 (“(shoe-shaped) boat”). Possibly phono-semantic (形聲) , 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)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. footwear

• 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)

履 (eumhun 신 리 (sin ri), 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

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