Chinese Character Wiki

碎

suì

break

Phonosemantic compound. 石 represents the meaning and 卒 represents the sound.

Components
石 meaning component

石  Meaning component

shí, dàn

  

stone

卒 sound component

卒  Sound component

zú, cù

  

soldier, to finish

Evolution

碎 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
碎 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

碎  

suì

break, smash; broken, busted; to break down; to break into pieces; fragmentary

Most common words with 碎
Freq.
Word
Meaning

碎

to break down

碎片

chip

破碎

to shatter

心碎

heartbroken

打碎

to shatter

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[s-tsʰ]ˤu[t]-s

swojH

suì

break


Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 31.2991% of movies

1173rd most common character in movies

1420th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+788E

Shuowen

“碎，也。从石，卒聲。”


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