足 zú
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 足 — foot
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
足智多谋
zúzhìduōmóu
resourceful; full of wisdom and strategy
Characters in this word
智 zhì
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 日 — sun
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
谋 móu
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 讠 — words, speech
- Made of
- 讠 words, speech 某 some, someone
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 他足智多谋，遇到难题总能想出好办法。 Tā zúzhìduōmóu, yùdào nántí zǒng néng xiǎngchū hǎo bànfǎ. He is resourceful; whenever he meets a difficult problem, he can always come up with a good solution.
- 谈判时她足智多谋，总能在关键时刻提出新方案。 Tánpàn shí tā zúzhìduōmóu, zǒng néng zài guānjiàn shíkè tíchū xīn fāng'àn. In negotiations she is full of clever strategies, always proposing new plans at crucial moments.
- 在孩子们眼里，爷爷足智多谋，什么问题都难不倒他。 Zài háizimen yǎn lǐ, yéye zúzhìduōmóu, shénme wèntí dōu nánbudǎo tā. In the children's eyes, grandpa is wonderfully resourceful; no problem can stump him.
Related words
- 满足 mǎnzú satisfied; to satisfy
- 足够 zúgòu enough
- 足球 zúqiú football
- 不足 bùzú not enough
- 充足 chōngzú enough; sufficient
- 十足 shízú full of; complete
- 足 zú foot, sufficient; sufficiently, fully
- 足以 zúyǐ sufficient to, enough to
- 长足 chángzú considerable; substantial
- 富足 fùzú prosperous; abundant; well-off
- 画蛇添足 huàshétiānzú to ruin something by overdoing it; gild the lily
- 举足轻重 jǔzúqīngzhòng pivotal; to carry great weight