促
cù HSK4

hurry, urge

Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 足 represents the sound.

Components

亻
亻 Meaning component
rén person
足
足 Sound component
zú foot

Character Evolution

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

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangsʰoɡ
Unicodetsiok
tsiok

說文解字

《說文》:“促,迫也。从人,足聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica