胁迫 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

xiépò

coerce

xié ribs Simplified

Simplified form of 脅. Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and 劦 represents the sound.

Components

⺼ Meaning component

ròu meat, flesh

⺼ is a component form of 肉.

力 Simplified component

lì, li power

Shorthand for the 劦 component in the traditional character 脅.

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode

pò coerce

Phonosemantic compound. 辶 represents the meaning and 白 represents the sound.

Components

辶 Meaning component

chuò walk

辶 is a component form of 辵.

白 Sound component

bái, bai white

Change in sound

迫 and 白 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Middle Chinese.
迫 paek
白 baek

Character Evolution

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	paek	Cə.pˤrak	near; press

說文解字

《說文》：“迫，近也。从辵，白聲。”

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)

xié ribs Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and 劦 represents the sound.

Components

⺼ Meaning component

ròu meat, flesh

⺼ is a component form of 肉.

劦 Sound component

xié, liè cooperate, combined labor

Character Evolution

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	xjæp	qʰ<r>ep	flank, side of the body
Zhengzhang		hlams
		hlab
Unicode	xiæp

說文解字

兩𦜶也。从肉劦聲。

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

胁 xié ribs Simplified

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迫 pò coerce

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說文解字

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脅 xié ribs Traditional

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Character Evolution

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xié ribs Simplified

pò coerce

xié ribs Traditional