pò
coerce
Phonosemantic compound. 辶 represents the meaning and 白 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 迫
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to compel | ||
to be compelled | ||
impatient (idiom); in a hurry | ||
to oppress | ||
urgent |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*Cə.pˤrak | paek | pò | near; press |
Statistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 32.7247% of movies
1232nd most common character in movies
1006th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+8FEB |
Shuowen | “迫,近也。从辵,白聲。” |
Sources
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