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迫

pò

coerce

Phonosemantic compound. 辶 represents the meaning and 白 represents the sound.

Components
辶 meaning component

辶  Meaning component

chuò

  

walk

辶 is a component form of 辵.

白 sound component

白  Sound component

bái

  

white

Evolution

迫 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
迫 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
迫 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
迫 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

迫  

pò

coerce, force, compel; urgent; to force; to compel; to approach or go towards; pressing

迫 (廹) 

pò

variant of 迫[pò]; to persecute; to oppress; embarrassed

Most common words with 迫
Freq.
Word
Meaning

强迫

to compel

被迫

to be compelled

迫不及待

impatient (idiom); in a hurry

压迫

to oppress

迫切

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。”


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