cuì
dense
Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 卒 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
cuì
dense, thick, close-set; to collect together; collect; collection; dense; grassy; thick; assemble; gather
Most common words with 萃
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
preeminent | ||
collect | ||
to gather | ||
to extract | ||
to stand out from one's fellows |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[dz][u]p-s | dzwijH | cuì | collect, crowd |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.3295% of movies
3294th most common character in movies
3503rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+8403 |
Shuowen | “萃，艸皃。从艸，卒聲。讀若瘁。” |
Sources
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