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毳

毳

Translingual

Han character

毳 (radical 82 毛+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹山竹山山 (HUHUU), four-corner 2071₄, composition ⿱毛㲎)

fine hair or fur on animals

References

KangXi: page 594, character 19

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16872

Dae Jaweon: page 986, character 18

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2000, character 4

Unihan data for U+6BF3

Chinese

simp. and trad.		毳

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (毳) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
膬	skʰods, skʰod
毳	skʰods, skʰrods
竁	skʰods, skʰrods, *kʰjons
橇	skʰrods, kʰrow

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): cuì (cui⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄘㄨㄟˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ceoi³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: cuì
  - Zhuyin: ㄘㄨㄟˋ
  - Wade-Giles: ts'ui⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsuey
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰu̯eɪ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: ceoi³
  - Yale: cheui
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsoey³
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰɵy̯³³/

Middle Chinese: /t͡sʰiuᴇi^H/, /t͡ʃʰˠiuᴇi^H/▼

Rime
Character	毳	毳
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	清 (14)	初 (19)
Final (韻)	祭 (36)	祭 (38)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	III	Chongniu III
Fanqie	此芮切	楚稅切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sʰiuᴇi^H/	/t͡ʃʰˠiuᴇi^H/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sʰʷiɛi^H/	/ʈ͡ʂʰʷᵚiei^H/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sʰiuæi^H/	/t͡ʃʰiuæi^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sʰwiaj^H/	/ʈ͡ʂʰjwiaj^H/
Li Rong	/t͡sʰiuɛi^H/	/t͡ʃʰjuɛi^H/
Wang Li	/t͡sʰĭwɛi^H/	/t͡ʃʰĭwɛi^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡sʰi̯wɛi^H/	/ʈ͡ʂʰi̯wɛi^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	cuì	chuài

Old Chinese▼

(Baxter-Sagart): /*[tsʰ]op-s/, /*[tsʰ]<r>op-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*skʰods/, /*skʰrods/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	毳	毳
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	cuì	cuì
Middle Chinese	‹ tshjwej^H ›	‹ tsrhjwej^H ›
Old Chinese	/*[tsʰ]op-s/	/*[tsʰ]<r>op-s/
English	fine hair; felt	down, fine hair
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	毳	毳
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	1892	1895
Phonetic component	毳	毳
Rime group	祭	祭
Rime subdivision	3	3
Corresponding MC rime	毳
Old Chinese	/*skʰods/	/*skʰrods/

Noun

毳

fine fur or hair on animals
- Shuo Wen Jie Zi (a dictionary in East Han Dynasty)
- 毳：獸細毛也。从三毛。凡毳之屬皆从毳。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
  
  毳：兽细毛也。从三毛。凡毳之属皆从毳。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
  
  Cuì: shòu xì máo yě. Cóng sān máo. Fán cuì zhī shǔ jiē cóng cuì. [Pinyin]
  
  [The character] 毳 [means] animals' fine fur indeed. [The character is] composed [of] three 毛s. All that belongs to the radical 毳 are composed of 毳.

Japanese

Kanji

毳

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Goon: せい (sei)

Kan’on: さい (sai)

Kan’yōon: ぜい (zei)

On (unclassified): せつ (setsu)

Kun: むくげ (mukuge)

Korean

Hanja

毳 • ‎(chwi, jeol) (hangeul 취, 절, revised chwi, jeol, McCune-Reischauer ch'wi, chŏl, Yale chwi, cel)

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Vietnamese

Han character

Hán Việt: tuyệt, xồi

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References

Nom Foundation