催

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 亻 (“person”) + phonetic 崔.

Han character

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

1. press, urge

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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

催 (Yale cheui1)

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Japanese

Kanji

催 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: さい (sai)
• Kun: もよおす (moyoosu), うながす (unagasu), もよおし (moyooshi)

Compounds

• 催告
• 催促
• 催眠術
• 催涙
• 催涙弾

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

催 (pinyin cuī (cui1), Wade-Giles ts'ui¹)

1. to urge; to push someone to do something

Compounds

• 催逼
• 催产
• 催促
• 催肥
• 催化
• 催化剂
• 催泪弹
• 催泪瓦斯
• 催眠
• 催眠曲
• 催眠术
• 催眠药
• 催命
• 催奶
• 催迫
• 催情
• 催生
• 催熟
• 催讨
• 催吐剂
• 催醒剂
• 催芽

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Vietnamese

Han character

催 (thôi, thòi, thui)