enjoin

Components

Sound component
mào risk
Meaning component
lì, li power

strength

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhanghmoɡ

說文解字

勉也。《周書》曰:“勖哉,夫子!”从力冒聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica