崔

崔 U+5D14, 崔 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5D14 ← 崓 [U+5D13] CJK Unified Ideographs 崕 → [U+5D15]

Translingual

Han character

崔 (Kangxi radical 46, 山+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 山人土 (UOG), four-corner 2221₄, composition ⿱山隹)

1. high, lofty, towering
2. a surname, #163 on the Baijiaxing

Derived characters

• 催, 凗, 嗺, 墔, 㜠, 𢕘, 慛, 摧, 漼, 獕, 𨻵, 槯, 𣩑, 熣, 𤗯, 𤛍, 璀, 膗, 皠, 磪, 𥼂, 繀(𮉮), 𦉎, 𪧾, 䜅, 𨄍, 鏙(𰾰), 𩌩, 𩏘, 𩞅, 𩪓
• 𡰋, 𣯧, 𧽠, 𣯯, 䳽, 𦸏, 𩮴, 𡻎, 巂, 𡾧, 𪛂, 𢊛, 𧢠, 𤮯, 𧮋

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 314, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8178
• Dae Jaweon: page 614, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 780, character 17
• Unihan data for U+5D14

Chinese

simp. and trad.		崔
alternative forms		嵟 obsolete

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (隹) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
蜼	*lus, *rulʔ, *luls
堆	*tuːl
嵟	*tuːl
碓	*tuːls
推	*tʰuːl, *tʰjul
蓷	*tʰuːl, *tʰjul
陮	*duːlʔ
魋	*duːl
嶊	*stuːlʔ
崔	*zluːl, *sʰluːl
猚	*ŋreːl, *rulʔ
椎	*dul
顀	*dul
隹	*tjul
錐	*tjul
萑	*kljul
騅	*tjul
鵻	*sɢʷinʔ, *tjul
誰	*djul
脽	*djul

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *zluːl, *sʰluːl) : semantic 山 (“mountain”) + phonetic 隹 (OC *tjul).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cuī (cui¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄨㄟ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ceoi¹
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): chhuî

  (Meixian, Guangdong): cui¹

• Northern Min (KCR): chó
• Eastern Min (BUC): chuŏi
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chhui

  (Teochew, Peng'im): cui¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: cuī
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄨㄟ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cuei
    • Wade–Giles: tsʻui¹
    • Yale: tswēi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsuei
    • Palladius: цуй (cuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰu̯eɪ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ceoi¹
    • Yale: chēui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsoey¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: cêu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɵy̯⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhuî
    • Hakka Romanization System: cui´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: cui¹
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰu̯i²⁴/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: cui¹
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰuɪ⁴⁴/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: chó
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰo⁵⁴/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: chuŏi
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰui⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhui
    • Tâi-lô: tshui
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhuy
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰui⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰui³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰui⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰui⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰui⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: cui¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshui
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰui³³/

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• Middle Chinese: tshwoj, dzwoj

Rime
Character	崔	崔
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	清 (14)	從 (15)
Final (韻)	灰 (42)	灰 (42)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	倉回切	昨回切
Baxter	tshwoj	dzwoj
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sʰuʌi/	/d͡zuʌi/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sʰuoi/	/d͡zuoi/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sʰuɒi/	/d͡zuɒi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sʰwəj/	/d͡zwəj/
Li Rong	/t͡sʰuᴀi/	/d͡zuᴀi/
Wang Li	/t͡sʰuɒi/	/d͡zuɒi/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡sʰuɑ̆i/	/d͡zʱuɑ̆i/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	cuī	cuí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ceoi1	ceoi4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[dz]ˤuj/

  (Zhengzhang): /*zluːl/, /*sʰluːl/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	崔
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	cuī
Middle Chinese	‹ dzwoj ›
Old Chinese	/*[dz]ˁuj/
English	high, rocky
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	崔	崔
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	1883	17713
Phonetic component	崔	隹
Rime group	微	微
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	摧	崔
Old Chinese	/*zluːl/	/*sʰluːl/

Definitions

崔

1. high, lofty, towering
2. height, summit
3. a surname,

   崔琦  ―  Cuī Qí  ―  Daniel Chee Tsui (Chinese-born American physicist and Nobel laureate)

Compounds

• 崔崔
• 崔嵬 (cuīwéi)
• 崔巍 (cuīwēi)
• 崔烈銅臭／崔烈铜臭
• 崔胡 (Cuīhú)
• 崔隤／崔𬯎
• 崔韜／崔韬
• 崔鶯鶯／崔莺莺
• 錯斬崔寧／错斩崔宁

 

Japanese

Kanji

崔

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. cliff, bluff, precipice

Readings

• Go-on: さい (sai)
• Kan-on: さい (sai)
• Nanori: たかし (takashi)

Korean

Hanja

崔 • (choe) (hangeul 최, revised choe, McCune–Reischauer ch'oe, Yale choy)

1. High
2. A surname

Vietnamese

Han character

崔: Hán Nôm readings: thôi, thoi, thòi

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