cuī
high
A bird 隹 faced with a mountain 山
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 崔
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
high mountain | ||
Cui Yongyuan (1963-), TV presenter | ||
Cui Jian (1961-), father of Chinese rock music | ||
Daniel C. Tsui (1939-), Chinese-born American physicist, winner of 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics | ||
tall |
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[dz]ˤuj | dzwoj | cuī | high, rocky |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 3.0915% of movies
1946th most common character in movies
2552nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+5D14 |
Shuowen | “崔,大高也。从山,隹聲。” |
Sources
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