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cuī

to destroy, to wreck

🔤 Pictophonetic: 扌 (hand) provides meaning, 崔 provides pronunciation

HSK 6 14 strokes Common (22%)

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Component Breakdown

Each color represents a different component

high, lofty, towering; surname

⿰扌崔 i

Stroke Order

Component Tree i

shǒu

扌

hand

📷 Pictographic: A hand with the fingers splayed; compare 手

3 strokes

èr

二

two; twice

💡 Ideographic: Two parallel lines; compare 一 (one) and 三 (three)

2 strokes HSK 1

jué

亅

hook

1 strokes

cuī

崔

high, lofty, towering; surname

💡 Ideographic: A bird 隹 faced with a mountain 山

11 strokes

shān

山

mountain, hill, peak

📷 Pictographic: Three mountain peaks

3 strokes HSK 3

zhuī

隹

short-tailed bird; sparrow

📷 Pictographic: A bird facing left; compare 鳥

8 strokes

Words Using 摧 (8)

Character

Pinyin

Definition

HSK

to break / to destroy / to devastate / to ravage / to repress

cuī

摧 ↗

to break / to destroy / to devastate / to ravage / to repress

to destroy / to wreck

cuīhuǐ

摧毁 ↗

to destroy / to wreck

坚不可摧 ↗

jiānbùkěcuī

invulnerable, indestructible, impregnable

jiānbùkěcuī

坚不可摧 ↗

invulnerable, indestructible, impregnable

崩摧 ↗

bēngcuī

to collapse / to shatter

bēngcuī

崩摧 ↗

to collapse / to shatter

无坚不摧 ↗

wújiānbùcuī

no stronghold one cannot overcome (idiom); to conquer every obstacle / nothing one can't do / to carry everything before one

wújiānbùcuī

无坚不摧 ↗

no stronghold one cannot overcome (idiom); to conquer every obstacle / nothing one can't do / to carry everything before one

兰摧玉折 ↗

láncuīyùzhé

premature death of a budding talent / those whom the Gods love die young

láncuīyùzhé

兰摧玉折 ↗

premature death of a budding talent / those whom the Gods love die young