躄 — 20 strokes ／ Radical「足」
道1University / general (hardest) ／ 20 strokes ／ Radical「足」
- On
- ヘキ
- Kun
- いざ.る・いざ.り
- Meaning
- unable to walk
Origin
Foot 足 with 辟 as phonetic: unable to stand, moving by crawling. The old reading is now avoided as discriminatory.
Stroke order
Compounds
- 歩行困難ほこうこんなん
difficulty in walking, the term used today
- 躄るいざる
to shuffle along on the knees
Example
今は歩行困難と言い、躄の語は避ける。
Today one says “difficulty in walking”; the old word is avoided.
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)