Chinese Character Wiki

催

cuī

press

Components
亻 meaning component

亻  Meaning component

rén

  

person

person

崔 sound component

崔  Sound component

cuī

  

high

Evolution

催 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
催 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
催 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

催  

cuī

press, urge; to urge; to press; to prompt; to rush sb; to hasten sth; to expedite

Most common words with 催
Freq.
Word
Meaning

催

to urge

催眠

hypnosis

催化剂

catalyst

催促

to urge

催生

to induce labor

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s-tʰˤuj

tshwoj

cuī

urge, repress


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 8.7618% of movies

1993rd most common character in movies

2064th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+50AC

Shuowen

“催，相儔也。从人，崔聲。”


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