— step, trample, carry through, appraise, evade payment

  • JLPT N1
  • 15 strokes
  • Secondary (Jōyō)
  • Radical 足
  • #723 most frequent

Readings

On'yomi
トウ
Kun'yomi
ふ.むふ.まえる

Example words

  • 踏切りふみきり(1) railway crossing; railroad crossing; train crossing; level crossing (2) starting line; scratch (3) determination (4) stepping over the edge of the ring (in sumo)
  • 踏むふむ(1) to step on; to tread on (2) to experience; to undergo (3) to estimate; to value; to appraise (4) to rhyme (5) to inherit (the throne, etc.) (6) to follow (rules, morals, principles, etc.)
  • 踏まえるふまえるto be based on; to have origin in
  • 踏み込むふみこむ(1) to step into (e.g. someone else's territory); to break into; to raid (2) to come to grips with; to get to the core of