蹦

bèng · HSK 7

to jump

🦘 bèng ~ boing! foot 足 + burst 崩 = feet springing off the ground

崩 (bēng) means collapse or burst and supplies the sound. Add the foot radical 足 on the left and you get feet bursting upward — a bounce or hop.

蹦 — foot radical 足 + 崩 bēng (phonetic)
A semantic-phonetic compound. The foot radical 足 supplies the meaning, since 蹦 describes leaping or hopping with the feet. The right side 崩 (bēng, 'collapse') gives the sound, slightly shifted to bèng. The character is relatively modern and not found in ancient oracle bone or seal scripts.

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