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催

催

催 U+50AC, 催
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-50AC
← 傫
[U+50AB] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 傭 →
[U+50AD]

Translingual

Han character

催 (radical 9 人+11, 13 strokes, cangjie input 人山人土 (OUOG), four-corner 22214, composition ⿰亻崔)

References

  • KangXi: page 114, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1005
  • Dae Jaweon: page 242, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 211, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+50AC

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 催

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 催
Small seal script

s05875
References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (large seal) and
  • Xu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series (崔) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
嗺 *ʔslo, *ʔsluːl, *sluːl, *ʔslul, *ʔslulʔ
催 *sʰluːl
璀 *sʰluːlʔ
皠 *sʰluːlʔ
漼 *sʰluːlʔ
鏙 *sʰluːlʔ
摧 *zluːl
崔 *zluːl, *sʰluːl
慛 *zluːl
槯 *zluːl
繀 *sluːls
膗 *zruːl

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sʰluːl) : semantic 亻 ‎(“person”) + phonetic 崔 ‎(OC *zluːl, *sʰluːl).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 催
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 清 (14)
Final (韻) 灰 (42)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 倉回切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡sʰuʌi/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡sʰuoi/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡sʰuɒi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡sʰwəj/
Li
Rong		 /t͡sʰuᴀi/
Wang
Li		 /t͡sʰuɒi/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡sʰuɑ̆i/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 cuī
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 催
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 cuī
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tshwoj ›
Old
Chinese		 /*s-tʰˤuj/
English urge, repress

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 催
Reading # 1/1
No. 1877
Phonetic
component		 崔
Rime
group		 微
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 崔
Old
Chinese		 /*sʰluːl/

Definitions

催

  1. to urge; to push someone to do something
    點解我成日要催你㗎？ [Cantonese, trad.]
    点解我成日要催你㗎？ [Cantonese, simp.]
    Dim2 gaai2 ngo5 seng4 jat6 jiu3ceoi1 nei5 gaa3? [Jyutping]
    Why do I always have to urge you?
  2. to speed up; to accelerate

Compounds

  • 三催四請／三催四请
  • 催併／催并
  • 催促 (cuīcù)
  • 催化 (cuīhuà)
  • 催化劑／催化剂 (cuīhuàjì)
  • 催吐劑／催吐剂
  • 催告
  • 催告書／催告书
  • 催命
  • 催命符
  • 催命鬼
  • 催奶 (cuīnǎi)
  • 催批
  • 催明鳥／催明鸟
  • 催淚彈／催泪弹 (cuīlèidàn)
  • 催請／催请
  • 催趲／催趱
  • 催辦／催办
  • 催迫
  • 催逼 (cuībī)
  • 催青
  • 催魂
  • 公示催告
  • 督催
  • 碎催
  • 羯鼓催花
  • 臘鼓頻催／腊鼓频催
  • 頻催／频催
  • 風催電／风催电

Japanese

Kanji

催

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

催 • ‎(choe) (hangeul 최, revised choe, McCune-Reischauer ch'oe)

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Vietnamese

Han character

催 (thôi, thòi, thui)

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