毳 · cuì
fine hair or fur on animals
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
fine hair or fur on animals
- Mandarin
- cuì
- Cantonese
- ceoi3
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 毳 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.
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Source record & scope
Unicode Unihan 17.0.0 · kJapanese ↗ · provisional property
ゼイ セイ カツ ケチ セツ セチ セ むくげ けば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.
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Reading sources explained
- 취
- 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+6BF3
- Radical
- 毛 · 82
- Strokes
- 12 · Unihan
- Residual
- 8
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
12 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 毳
Character connections
1 catalogue records include this shape in their first retained IDS. Graphical containment does not imply shared etymology.
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- tshjwejH · 此芮 反切 · #2389
- Middle Chinese
- tsrhjwejH · 楚稅 反切 · #2394
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 13745 · tshjwejH = 蟹合三去祭清 · tsrhjwejH = 蟹合三去祭初
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
- cuì
- kCantonese
- ceoi3
- kDefinition
- fine hair or fur on animals
- kTotalStrokes
- 12
- kRSUnicode
- 82.8
- kTGH
- 2013:5194
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- cuì,qiāo,xiā 32000.040
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- cuì 0183.140
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- cuì 058.180
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- cùi粵ceoi3
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 此芮 楚稅
- Kangxi positions
- 0594.190
- Guangyun positions
- 375.39 376.41
- GSR references
- 0345a
- Cangjie
- HUHUU
- Four-corner
- 2071.4