Chinese Character Wiki

崔

cuī

high

A bird 隹 faced with a mountain 山

Components
山 meaning component

山  Meaning component

shān

  

mountain

隹 meaning component

隹  Meaning component

zhuī

  

bird

Evolution

崔 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
崔 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
崔 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
崔 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

崔  

cuī

high, lofty, towering; surname; high mountain; precipitous

崔  

Cuī

surname Cui

Most common words with 崔
Freq.
Word
Meaning

崔

high mountain

崔永元

Cui Yongyuan (1963-), TV presenter

崔健

Cui Jian (1961-), father of Chinese rock music

崔琦

Daniel C. Tsui (1939-), Chinese-born American physicist, winner of 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics

崔巍

tall

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

漼

Sound component in 5 characters (0 verified)

催 摧 璀 巂 漼

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。”


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