踩 (cǎi): to step on
踩 (cǎi) is a Chinese character meaning “to step on.” Classified as HSK Level 6 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 足 (semantic) and 采 (phonetic). It ranks #2466 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 踩 foot. Its radical form 足 (foot) appears in many related characters such as 跑 (pǎo, to run), 跟 (gēn, follow, heel), 路 (lù, road).
Definitions
- to step on
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 踩高跷 | cǎi gāo qiāo | to walk on stilts |
| 踩水 | cǎi shuǐ | to tread water |
| 脚踩两只船 | jiǎo cǎi liǎng zhī chuán | see 腳踏兩隻船|脚踏两只船[jiao3 ta4 liang3 zhi1 chuan2] |
| 往泥里踩 | wǎng nì lǐ cǎi | to belittle |
| 踩线团 | cǎi xiàn tuán | group on a tour to get acquainted with the local situation |
| 踩失脚 | cǎi shī jiǎo | to lose one's footing |
| 踩道 | cǎi dào | to scout |
| 踩动 | cǎi dòng | to operate by means of a pedal |
| 踩点 | cǎi diǎn | to reconnoiter |
| 踩空 | cǎi kōng | to miss one's step |
| 踩线 | cǎi xiàn | to scout for a tour operator |
| 扒高踩低 | pá gāo cǎi dī | crawl high, step low (idiom) |
| 踩雷 | cǎi léi | to step on a mine |
| 踩刹车 | cǎi shā chē | to step on the brake |
| 踩踏 | cǎi tà | to trample on |
踩 appears in 16 compound words: 81 as the first character, 6 as the last, and 13 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 踩 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Example Sentences
小心别踩到水坑里，会把鞋子弄湿的。
Xiǎoxīn bié cǎi dào shuǐkēng lǐ, huì bǎ xiézi nòng shī de.
Be careful not to step in the puddle; it will get your shoes wet.
75岁影后刘晓庆踩入短剧界 演妙龄少女激吻细30岁男星 8...
7 5 suì yǐng hòu liú xiǎo qìng cǎi rù duǎn jù jiè yǎn miào líng shǎo nǚ jī wěn xì 3 0 suì nán xīng 8 . . .
75-year-old actress Liu Xiaoqing stepped into the short drama industry and played a young girl and kissed a 30-year-old male star 8...
黃子華踩英國食物難吃 稱:「全世界只有去英國先搵...
黃 zǐ 華 cǎi yīng 國 shí wù 難 chī 稱 quán shì jiè zhī yǒu qù yīng 國 xiān 搵 . . .
Huang Zihua stepped on British food and said: "The world only finds it when you go to the UK...
初九拜天公8點禁忌!踩雷衰運整年 天公是誰、最佳祭拜吉時一覽
chū jiǔ bài tiān gōng 點 jīn jì ! cǎi léi shuāi 運 zhěng nián tiān gōng shì 誰 zuì jiā jì bài jí 時 yī 覽
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...公生」 素供品誠心敬拜 小心3大地雷 誤踩恐衰整年
. . . gōng shēng sù gōng pǐn 誠 xīn jìng bài xiǎo xīn dà dì léi 誤 cǎi kǒng shuāi zhěng nián
...Public Offering Sincere Worship with Simple Offerings Beware of 3 Major Pitfalls Treading Carefully to Avoid Misfortune All Year
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mǎ dào píng ān jù jué rén cóng zhòng shāng hài , chūn jié fáng cǎi tà zhǐ nán . .
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不要踩在碎玻璃上。
Bù yào cǎi zài suì bōli shàng.
Don't step on the broken glass.
去地铁的路上差点踩到一只壁虎。
Qù dìtiě de lùshang chàdiǎn cǎi dào yī zhī bìhǔ.
Almost stepped on a gecko while going to the metro.
汤姆踩到自己狗狗的尾巴了。
Tāngmǔ cǎi dào zìjǐ gǒugōu de wěiba le.
Tom stepped on his dog's tail.
汤姆猛踩煞车，汽车开始打滑。
Tāngmǔ měng cǎi shāchē, qìchē kāishǐ dǎhuá.
Tom slammed on the brakes and the car began to skid.
Character Family
足 Radical Family — Characters sharing the foot radical
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