suì
break
Phonosemantic compound. 石 represents the meaning and 卒 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
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。” |
Sources
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