cù
hurry, urge
Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 足 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 促
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
boost | ||
to induce | ||
to promote sales | ||
to facilitate | ||
hurriedly |
Statistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 8.8739% of movies
2188th most common character in movies
1102nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+4FC3 |
Shuowen | “促,迫也。从人,足聲。” |
Sources
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