崔
(literary) (of mountains) lofty
11 strokes
Dict coverage rank #2,994 U+5D14
How 崔 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A bird 隹 faced with a mountain 山
How to remember it
Cui · Heisig RSH #1937
山 mountain + turkey — as a component also called: pterodactyl
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 崔 as their sound component
These characters all use 崔 (cuī) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 崔 sound component | cuī | high, lofty, towering; surname |
| 催 | cuī | to press, to urge |
| 摧 | cuī | to destroy, to wreck |
| 璀 | cuǐ | brillance; luster; to shine |
| 巂 | xī | a place name |
Words containing 崔
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 崔永元 | Cuī Yǒng yuán | Cui Yongyuan (1963-), TV presenter |
| 崔明慧 | Cuī Míng huì | Christine Choy (1964-), Chinese-American film director |
| 崔健 | Cuī Jiàn | Cui Jian (1961-), father of Chinese rock music |
| 崔鸿 | Cuī Hóng | Cui Hong, historian at the end of Wei of the Northern Dynasties 北魏 |
| 崔圭夏 | Cuī Guī xià | Choe Gyuha (1919-2006), South Korean politician, president 1979-1980 |
| 崔萤 | Cuī Yíng | Choi Yeong (1316-1388), general of Korean Goryeo dynasty |
| 崔巍 | cuī wēi | tall; towering |
| 崔嵬 | Cuī Wéi | Cui Wei (1912-1979), actor, dramatist and movie director |
| 崔嵬 | cuī wéi | stony mound; rocky mountain; lofty; towering |
| 崔颢 | Cuī Hào | Cui Hao (-754), Tang dynasty poet and author of poem Yellow Crane Tower 黃鶴樓|黄鹤楼 |
| 崔琦 | Cuī Qí | Daniel C. Tsui (1939-), Chinese-born American physicist, winner of 1998 Nobel Prize in Phy… |