HSK4

hurry, urge

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
rén person
Sound component
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