迫促 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

pòcù

urge

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)

cù hurry, urge

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

Components

亻 Meaning component

rén person

足 Sound component

zú foot

Character Evolution

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang		sʰoɡ
Unicode	tsiok
	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)

迫 pò coerce

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Character Evolution

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說文解字

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促 cù hurry, urge

Components

Character Evolution

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pò coerce

cù hurry, urge