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碎

碎

See also: 砕

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

碎 (radical 112 石+8, 13 strokes, cangjie input 一口卜人十 (MRYOJ), four-corner 10648)

  1. break, smash
  2. broken, busted

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 832, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24284
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1248, character 23
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2439, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+788E

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 碎

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (卒) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
晬 *ʔsuːds
祽 *ʔsuːds
綷 *ʔsuːds
淬 *sʰuːds
啐 *sʰuːds, *suːds, *sʰroːds, *ʔsud
倅 *sʰuːds, *ʔsuːd
焠 *sʰuːds
碎 *suːds
誶 *suːds, *suds, *zud
濢 *ʔslulʔ, *sʰluds
噿 *ʔslulʔ
臎 *ʔslulʔ, *sʰluds
醉 *ʔsuds
翠 *sʰuds
悴 *zuds
萃 *zuds
瘁 *zuds
顇 *zuds
粹 *suds
睟 *suds
賥 *suds
卒 *ʔsuːd, *sʰuːd, *ʔsud
稡 *ʔsuːd
猝 *sʰuːd
椊 *zuːd
捽 *zuːd, *zud
崪 *zuːd
窣 *suːd
崒 *zud
踤 *zud
錊 *ʔsuːɡ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 碎
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 灰 (42)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 蘇内切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /suʌiH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /suoiH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /suɒiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /swəjH/
Li
Rong		 /suᴀiH/
Wang
Li		 /suɒiH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /suɑ̆iH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 suì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 碎
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 suì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ swojH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[s-tsʰ]ˤu[t]-s/
English break

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 碎
Reading # 1/1
No. 17936
Phonetic
component		 卒
Rime
group		 隊
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese		 /*suːds/

Adjective

碎

  1. shattered; fragmented; shredded
    碎片  ―  suìpiàn  ―  chip; fragment
    啲薯片碎嗮喇。 [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]
    Di1 syu4 pin3-2seoi3 saai3 laa3. [Jyutping]
    The chips are all crushed.
  2. talkative
    閒言碎語 / 闲言碎语  ―  jiānyánsuìyǔ  ―  gossip
    碎嘴子  ―  suìzuǐzǐ  ―  talkative

Noun

碎

  1. small pieces; bits; fragments
    玻璃碎  ―  bōlísuì  ―  glass shards
    肉碎  ―  ròusuì  ―  minced meat

Verb

碎

  1. to shatter; to fragment; to shred
    碎紙機 / 碎纸机  ―  suìzhǐjī  ―  paper shredder

Compounds

  • 碎步
  • 碎步兒／碎步儿
  • 碎片 (suìpiàn)
  • 碎花
  • 碎裂

References

Japanese

Kanji

碎

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

碎 • ‎(swae) (hangeul 쇄, revised swae, McCune-Reischauer swae, Yale sway)

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Vietnamese

Han character

碎 (toái, thỏi, tôi, toả, tui, tủi)

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