跟gēn
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跟
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Shuowen
跟. It consists of the foot radical 足 and the phonetic 艮, originally representing the heel of the foot in ancient inscriptions; the literal meaning “heel” was later used metaphorically for “to follow”.
Pinyin
gēn· HSK 1