暑促
shǔ​cù

summer sale

暑 shǔ hot

Phonosemantic compound. 日 represents the meaning and 者 represents the sound.

Components

日
日 Meaning component
rì sun
者
者 Sound component
zhě one who...
Change in sound

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartsyoXs-tʰaʔ heat

說文解字

《說文》：“暑，熱也。从日，者聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

促 cù 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
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)