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崔

cuī

Character

What 崔 means

1. literary(of mountains) lofty

Other readings

崔 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• Cuīsurname Cui

Example sentences

• 崔西弄丢了她的眼镜。
  Cuī xī nòngdiū le tā de yǎnjìng.
  Tracy lost her glasses.
• 崔西在那之前从来没有使用过筷子。
  Cuī xī zài nà zhīqián cóngláiméiyǒu shǐyòng guo kuàizi.
  Tracy had never used chopsticks before then.

Words starting with 崔

• 崔健Cuī JiànCui Jian (1961-), father of Chinese rock music
• 崔永元Cuī Yǒng yuánCui Yongyuan (1963-), TV presenter
• 崔鸿Cuī HóngCui Hong, historian at the end of Wei of the Northern Dynasties 北魏
• 崔圭夏Cuī Guī xiàChoe Gyuha (1919-2006), South Korean politician, president 1979-1980
• 崔明慧Cuī Míng huìChristine Choy (1964-), Chinese-American film director
• 崔萤Cuī YíngChoi Yeong (1316-1388), general of Korean Goryeo dynasty
• 崔琦Cuī QíDaniel C. Tsui (1939-), Chinese-born American physicist, winner of 1998 Nobel Prize in…
• 崔巍cuī wēitall; towering
• 崔颢Cuī HàoCui Hao (-754), Tang dynasty poet and author of poem Yellow Crane Tower 黄鹤楼
• 崔嵬cuī wéistony mound; rocky mountain; lofty

Characters built on 隹

These share the phonetic component 隹 (zhuī), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 推tuīto push; to cut; to refuse
• 堆duīto pile up; to heap up; a mass
• 锥zhuīcone; awl; to bore
• 椎zhuī(bound form) vertebra
• 睢suīto stare
• 骓zhuī(literary) piebald horse
• 碓duìpestle; pound with a pestle

Characters that look like 崔

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 援yuánto help; to assist; to aid
• 虚xūemptiness; void; abstract theory or guiding principles
• 盗dàoto steal; to rob; to plunder
• 嵌qiànto inlay; to embed; Taiwan pr. qiān
• 雀què(bound form) small bird; sparrow; also pr. qiǎo
• 庸yōngordinary; to use

Sounds the same

Read cuī, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 催to urge; to press; to prompt
• 摧to break; to destroy; to devastate
• 榱rafter (classical)
• 獕used in 猥獕
• 磪a high mountain; precipitous
• 缞mourning garments of coarse hemp
• 衰variant of 缞