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Joshua Reyer wrote:
To represent foot, then, 足 was created. This character, incidently, means "foot", not leg. The character for leg, also read ashi is actually 脚.
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Thanks for an excellent explanation. I didn't know they had a different kanji for leg (but I'm not overly surprised). Sometimes I wish they had a different sound for it -- how many people have been confused by "
ashi ga hantai" ?
"
Which ashi are
hantai? My 脚
ashi or my 足
ashi?"
