cuī HSK7

press

Components

Meaning component
rén person

person

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 ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarttshwojs-tʰˤujurge, repress
Zhengzhangsʰluːl
Unicodetsuəi
tsuəi

說文解字

相儔也。从人崔聲。《詩》曰:“室人交徧催我。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica