躇 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

chú

hesitate

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

Components

足 Meaning component

zú foot

著 Sound component

zhe, zháo, zhù [progress particle]

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	trhjak	tʰrak	jump over, pass over
Zhengzhang		da
Unicode	djhiu

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart Zhengzhang Shangfang