Illustration: A resident carrying a laundry basket pauses just inside a Japanese apartment living room. Directly around their socked feet, a kitten wrestles with a slipper while two toy blocks and a loose sock crowd the narrow patch of floor.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

足あし元もと

ashimoto

at one’s feet, underfoot

Example sentences

  1. 足元あしもとにご注意ちゅういください。

    Watch your step.

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  2. 地震じしんで足下あしもとが揺ゆれた。

    The ground underfoot shook from the earthquake.

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

  3. 足元あしもとに何なにか落おちてますよ。

    Something has fallen by your feet.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 足元

  • 足leg; footOnソクKunあし・たりる・たる
  • 元beginning; former timeOnゲン・ガンKunもと

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