摧 · cuī
destroy, break, injure
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
destroy, break, injure
- Mandarin
- cuī
- Cantonese
- ceoi1
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 摧 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
Go deeperJisho ↗Wiktionary ↗
Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
Go deeperNaver Hanja ↗Wiktionary ↗
Reading sources explained
- 최
- KS X 1002 (1) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+6467
- Radical
- 手 · 64
- Strokes
- 14 · Unihan
- Residual
- 11
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
14 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 摧
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Component roles · attributed
- 崔 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 崔聲
Line 17472 · ⿰扌崔 · 崔聲 · source reference 4410250
Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- dzwoj · 昨回 反切 · #375
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 3283 · dzwoj = 蟹合一平灰從
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- cuī
- kCantonese
- ceoi1
- kDefinition
- destroy, break, injure
- kTotalStrokes
- 14
- kRSUnicode
- 64.11
- kGradeLevel
- 5
- kTGH
- 2013:3057
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- cuī,zuì,cuò 31946.080
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- cuī 0182.080
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- cuī 058.090
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- cuī(58)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- cuī粵ceoi1
Reference desk
- Kangxi positions
- 0450.230
- Guangyun positions
- 098.05 273.34
- GSR references
- 0575l'
- Cangjie
- QUOG
- Four-corner
- 5201.4