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

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

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
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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