Chinese Character Wiki

毳

cuì

fine hair or fur on animals

Many fine hairs 毛 forming a pelt

Components
毛 meaning component

毛  Meaning component

máo

  

hair

毛 meaning component

毛  Meaning component

máo

  

hair

毛 meaning component

毛  Meaning component

máo

  

hair

Evolution

毳 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
毳 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
毳 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
毳 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

毳  

cuì

fine hair or fur on animals; crisp; brittle; fine animal hair

Component uses

Sound component in 2 characters (0 verified)

撬 橇

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[tsʰ]op-s

tshjwejH

cuì

fine hair; felt

*[tsʰ]<r>op-s

tsrhjwejH

cuì

down, fine hair


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

7796th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+6BF3

Shuowen

“毳，獸細毛也。从三毛。”


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