促

cù = cu + Ø4

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

促 = 亻 + 足 : 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

促
- 亻
  - 丨
  - 丿
- 足
  - 口
  - 龰
    - 人
      - 丿
      - ㇏
    - ⺊
      - 一
      - 丨

亻

rén = r + (e)n2

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

亻 = 丿 + 丨 : 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).

足

jù = ju + Ø4

excessive

足

zú = zu + Ø2

foot / to be sufficient / ample

足 = 龰 + 口 : 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

促

cù

使

shǐ

to induce / to promote / to urge / to impel / to bring about / to provoke / to drive (sb to do sth) / to catalyze / to actuate / to contribute to (some development)

促

cù

进

進

jìn

to promote (an idea or cause) / to advance / boost

促

cù

销

銷

xia̅o

to promote sales