entries → 蹤
TSUMUGU · B1 (est.) · 字
蹤 character · B1 (est.)
蹤 ＝ 足 ＋ 從
ㄗㄨㄥ · zōng
noun — track, trace, footprint

字源 FORM — what the parts do

足義a foot
從聲cóng — gives the soundone figure walking behind another — to follow
Icóng → zōng — the initial hardens, the rhyme holds
A foot (足) and 從 cóng, the follow-one-behind-another graph. What a foot leaves to be followed is its track. 從 lends the sound, the c worn to z. 蹤跡、追蹤.

故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by

雪地上一串腳印（足），順著走，人就在前面。
A line of prints (足) in the snow; follow them and the person is just ahead.
字源記憶法
意 · Meanings
(本義)蹤跡、足蹤— track, footprint常用
→追蹤、失蹤— to trace; to go missing
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension
關 · Related
從cóngthe bare phonetic — 蹤 adds the foot 足 that does the treading踵zhǒngthe foot-sibling — 踵 takes 重, the heel itself