cuī

destroy

Components
扌 meaning component

  Meaning component

shoushǒu

  

hand

hand

崔 sound component

  Sound component

cuī

  

high

Evolution

摧 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

cuī

destroy, break, injure; to break; to destroy; to devastate; to ravage; to repress

Most common words with 摧
Freq.
Word
Meaning

摧毁

to destroy

摧残

to ravage

to break

坚不可摧

invulnerable, indestructible, impregnable

无坚不摧

nothing one can't do

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 10.3156% of movies

1952nd most common character in movies

2166th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+6467

Shuowen

“摧,擠也。从手,崔聲。一曰挏也。一曰折也。”


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