cuī HSK7

destroy

Components

Meaning component
shou, shǒu hand

hand

Sound component
cuī high

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangzluːl
Unicodedzhuəi

說文解字

擠也。从手崔聲。一曰挏也,一曰折也。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica