stimulate, urge, press, demand, incite
促 centers on applying pressure to move someone or something forward: urging, stimulating, pressing, demanding, or inciting action.
促 combines 亻 (person) with 足 (foot/leg), suggesting a person urging another forward, possibly by pressing from behind.
A person 亻 using their foot 足 to nudge someone along: urging, pressing, or stimulating them to move.
For ソク, imagine a sock puppet urging you to hurry: sock -> ソク, and the puppet presses you to act.
promotion; acceleration; encouragement; facilitation; spurring on
to urge; to encourage; to press; to prompt; to draw (attention to)
sales promotion
pressing; urging; demanding; demand
urge; demand; importunity
promotion of growth
forcing (plants, vegetables, etc.); artificially hastening the growth of plants (by controlling heat, light, etc.)
growing urgent; becoming distressful
accelerant; stimulant
acceleration ratio
accelerating agent; stimulating agent; accelerant
geminate consonant (small "tsu" in Japanese)
nasal sound change (generation of geminate consonant, primarily a geminate 't' from vowel stems ending in 'i')
dun; letter requesting money, etc.
prompt
(workers) asset formation
Association of International Educational Exchange; AiEE
refusal to leave
acute respiratory distress syndrome; ARDS
growth promotant