urgent

Components

Meaning component
qi battle-axe, sorrow, grief, relative

grieving

Sound component
foot

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangʔslɯwɢ
Unicodetziuk

說文解字

迫也。从足戚聲。臣鉉等案:李善《文選注》通蹴字。

Sources

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