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崔

崔

Translingual

Han character

崔 (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

References

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 崔

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

Pronunciation

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
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
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 崔
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 cuī
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dzwoj ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[dz]ˤuj/
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

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Compounds

  • 崔嵬

Japanese

Kanji

崔

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

崔 (thôi, thoi, thòi)

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