urgent / hurried / to urge / to promote / to urge haste / close / intimate

= + : Kitty Cat (cu) is urging (促) Rosa Luxemburg (亻) into buying her last 8326 footballs (足), stating again and again that this is a special opportunity that will not come back anytime soon and so on. Indeed she already talked her into a corner in the space station's bathroom (Ø4).

促 character breakdown

"person" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 9)

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: Rosa Luxemburg. She's quite radical, and her name starts with "r", just like "ren2". Also, 亻appears at the left-hand side of characters, and Rosa is a leftist as well.

Robinson Crusoe (r) and Rosa Luxemburg (亻) are having their favorite snacks in the encampment's kitchen: Rosa is eating a banana (丿) and Robinson is eating a dinosaur bone (丨).
excessive
foot / to be sufficient / ample

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a football. Zapatista Zebra (zu) wants to pimp his football (足) in the space station's kitchen (Ø2). He thinks that a few more vitamins wouldn't hurt, so he extracts the vitamins from a mandarin (口) with a syringe (龰) to inject them into his football.

Characters with 促 as component

促 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 促

cramped / ill at ease
narrow (surrounding) / short (of time)
to tighten the strings (of a musical instrument)
(coll.) teasing / mischievous
rascal / mischievous fellow / joker

Sentences with 促

促 currently does not appear in any sentence.