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促

cù
verb/adjective #23,955

Meanings

  1. 1 to urge; to press
  2. 2 to promote; to facilitate
  3. 3 hasty; hurried

Examples

促进发展。
Cùjìn fāzhǎn.
To promote development.
催促他快走。
Cuīcù tā kuàizǒu.
Urge him to go quickly.

Tips

usage
促进 = to promote, 催促 = to urge.

Components

radical
亻 rén
person (left-side radical form of 人)
Left-side person radical, the side form of 人. Marks 促 as a human action — to press, urge, hurry someone along — done by people to people. Indexes the character in the same family as 催 to urge, 仅 only, 任 to entrust, 仰 to look up to.
phonetic
足 zú
foot (here phonetic and semantic)
Right side 足 — primarily a phonetic, supplying zú → cù through an old initial alternation. But 足 'foot' also feeds the meaning: a person at someone's heels, pressing them to step quicker. The picture is one person literally on another's foot, urging haste — fitting 催促 to press.

Stroke Order

促 cù