Chinese Character Wiki

潰

kuì

flooding river

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 貴 represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

貴 sound component

貴  Sound component

guì

  

expensive

Evolution

潰 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

溃 (潰) 

kuì

flooding river; militarily defeat; to be dispersed; to break down; to fester; to ulcerate

Most common words with 潰
Freq.
Word
Meaning

崩溃

to collapse

溃疡

ulcer

溃

to fester

击溃

to defeat

溃烂

to fester

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[gʷ]ˤ[ə]j-s

hwojH

kuì

break through an embankment (of water)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 12.8624% of movies

1904th most common character in movies

1916th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

溃

Unicode

U+6F70

Shuowen

“潰，漏也。从水，貴聲。”


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