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摧

cuī

HSK 6 Character

What 摧 means

1. to break
2. to destroy
3. to devastate
4. to ravage
5. to repress

Example sentences

• 摧毁这个寺庙。
  Destroy this temple.
• 我摧毁了所有的证据
  Wǒ cuīhuǐ le suǒyǒu de zhèngjù
  I destroyed all the evidence.
• 国王摧毁了他的敌人。
  Guówáng cuīhuǐ le tā de dírén.
  The king crushed his enemies.
• 我摧毁了所有的证据。
  I destroyed all the evidence.
• 恶魔摧毁了广岛和长崎。
  èmó cuīhuǐ le Guǎngdǎo hé Chángqí.
  The devil destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
• 这座城市在战争中被摧毁。
  The city was destroyed in the war.

Words starting with 摧

• 摧残cuī cánto ravage; to ruin
• 摧毁cuī huǐto destroy; to wreck

Words containing 摧

• 悲摧bēi cuīgrieved; miserable
• 坚不可摧jiān bù kě cuī(idiom) invulnerable; indestructible; impregnable
• 无坚不摧wú jiān bù cuīno stronghold one cannot overcome (idiom); to conquer every obstacle…
• 兰摧玉折lán cuī yù zhépremature death of a budding talent; those whom the Gods love die young
• 崩摧bēng cuīto collapse; to shatter

Characters built on 崔

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

• 催cuīto urge; to press; to prompt
• 璀cuǐluster of gems
• 巂guīcuckoo; revolution of a wheel
• 漼cuǐhaving the appearance of depth

Characters that look like 摧

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

• 辖xiálinchpin (used to fasten a wheel to an axle); (bound form) to govern…
• 槽cáotrough; manger; groove
• 楷jiēChinese pistachio tree (Pistacia chinensis)
• 瑾jǐnbrilliancy (of gems)
• 辗zhǎnused in 辗转
• 璀cuǐluster of gems

Sounds the same

Read cuī, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 催to urge; to press; to prompt
• 崔(literary) (of mountains) lofty
• 榱rafter (classical)
• 獕used in 猥獕
• 磪a high mountain; precipitous
• 缞mourning garments of coarse hemp
• 衰variant of 缞