cuì

color green

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
羽 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

feather

卒 sound component

  Sound component

  

soldier, to finish

Evolution

翠 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
翠 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
翠 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
翠 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
翠 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

cuì

color green; kingfisher; bluish-green; green jade

Most common words with 翠
Freq.
Word
Meaning

bluish-green

翡翠

jadeite

翠绿

greenish-blue

青翠

verdant

苍翠

verdant

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.0183% of movies

2437th most common character in movies

2177th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+7FE0

Shuowen

“翠,青羽雀也,出鬱林。从羽,卒聲。”


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