cuì

fine hair or fur on animals

Many fine hairs  forming a pelt

Components

Meaning component
máo, mao hair
Meaning component
máo, mao hair
Meaning component
máo, mao hair

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (0 of 2 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarttshjwejH[tsʰ]op-sfine hair; felt
tsrhjwejH[tsʰ]<r>op-sdown, fine hair
Zhengzhangskʰods
skʰrods

說文解字

獸細毛也。从三毛。凡毳之屬皆从毳。

Sources

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