跡

音読おんよみ: セキ

訓読くんよみ: あと

画数かくすう: 13

部首ぶしゅ: あしへん（足）

Meaning

Trace / mark / remains / ruins.

  • 跡あと — trace; mark; remains
  • 足跡あしあと — footprint; track; trace
  • 足跡そくせき — one’s record; achievements
  • 史跡しせき — historic site
  • 遺跡いせき — (archaeological) ruins; remains
  • 奇跡きせき — miracle.

The left-side radical あしへん（足） signals a foot/step. Add the sound element for セキ, and the whole character paints the idea of footsteps left behind — the marks, traces, or ruins that remain after something has passed.

足

Link 跡 with 足 (foot). Picture footprints pressed into soft ground — the あと that remains. That image locks in “trace / mark / ruins.”

奇
Creates

奇跡きせき — miracle; wondrous happening (lit. “strange/rare + trace/mark”).

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