Radical 足

13 strokes

foot 足 (280) + omen 兆 (788a) = jump 跳

跳舞 (787) tiàowǔ to dance

[跳高 (481) tiào gāo high jump]

You find a bird’s foot in the road — this is an omen and you know that what you have to do is jump over it. / Two dwarf bureaucrats from the town hall arrive to make sure the omen sighting is documented in duplicate.

Compare this with “north” (Character 317).