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Translingual

Han character

(radical 130 +6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 月弓一山 (BNMU), four-corner 77212)

  1. crisp
  2. fragile, frail
  3. brittle

References

  • KangXi: page 982, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29468
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1434, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2069, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+8106

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ʔsods, *ʔsod
*sʰods
*sʰods
*zod

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /t͡sʰuei⁵¹/
Harbin /t͡sʰuei⁵³/
Tianjin /t͡sʰuei⁵³/
Jinan /t͡sʰuei²¹/
Qingdao /ʈ͡ʂʰue⁴²/
Zhengzhou /t͡sʰuei³¹²/
Xi'an /t͡sʰuei⁴⁴/
Xining /t͡sʰuɨ²¹³/
Yinchuan /t͡sʰuei⁵³/ 易折損
/t͡sʰuei¹³/ 清~
Lanzhou /t͡sʰuei¹³/
Ürümqi /t͡sʰuei²¹³/
Wuhan /t͡sʰei³⁵/
Chengdu /t͡sʰuei¹³/
Guiyang /t͡sʰuei²¹³/
Kunming /t͡sʰuei²¹²/
Nanjing /t͡sʰuəi⁴⁴/
Hefei /t͡sʰe⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡sʰuei⁴⁵/
Pingyao /t͡sʰuei³⁵/
Hohhot /t͡sʰuei⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /t͡sʰe³⁵/
Suzhou /t͡sʰe̞⁵¹³/
Hangzhou /t͡sʰz̩ʷei⁴⁴⁵/
Wenzhou /t͡sʰai³⁵/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕʰye³²⁴/
/t͡ɕʰy³²⁴/
Tunxi /t͡sʰe⁴²/
Xiang Changsha /t͡sʰei⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /t͡sʰəi⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /t͡sʰui²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sʰoi⁵³/
Taoyuan
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sʰøy³³/
Nanning /t͡sʰui³³/
Hong Kong /t͡sʰøy³³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /t͡sʰui²¹/
/t͡sʰe²¹/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /t͡sʰuɔi²¹²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /t͡sʰo³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /t͡sʰui⁵³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /sui³⁵/
/se³⁵/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (14)
Final () (36)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡sʰiuᴇiH/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡sʰʷiɛiH/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡sʰiuæiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/t͡sʰwiajH/
Li
Rong
/t͡sʰiuɛiH/
Wang
Li
/t͡sʰĭwɛiH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡sʰi̯wɛiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
cuì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
cuì
Middle
Chinese
‹ tshjwejH ›
Old
Chinese
/*[tsʰ]o[t]-s/
English brittle

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 7250
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sʰods/
Notes

Adjective

  1. crisp
    燒肉 / 烧肉   cuì pí shāoròu   siu yuk with crispy skin
  2. (of voices) clear; crisp
       qīngcuì   clear and crisp
  3. brittle; fragile

Compounds

  • 乾脆干脆 (gāncuì)
  • 乾脆爽快干脆爽快
  • 浮脆
  • 清脆 (qīngcuì)
  • 爽脆
  • 甘脆
  • 脆促
  • 脆弱 (cuìruò)
  • 脆快
  • 脆快了當脆快了当
  • 脆性 (cuìxìng)
  • 脆怯
  • 脆生
  • 脆薄
  • 脆餅脆饼
  • 脆骨
  • 薄脆
  • 輕脆轻脆
  • 迸脆
  • 香脆
  • 鬆脆松脆

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(chwi) (hangeul , revised chwi, McCune-Reischauer ch'wi, Yale chwi)

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