萃

萃 U+8403, 萃 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8403 ← 萂 [U+8402] CJK Unified Ideographs 萄 → [U+8404]

Translingual

Han character

萃 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 廿卜人十 (TYOJ), four-corner 4440₈, composition ⿱艹卒)

1. dense, thick, close-set
2. to collect together
3. 45th hexagram of the I Ching

Derived characters

• 㵏 㯜 膵

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1040, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31251
• Dae Jaweon: page 1499, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3238, character 5
• Unihan data for U+8403

Chinese

trad.		萃
simp. #		萃

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 萃
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (卒) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
晬	*ʔsuːds
祽	*ʔsuːds
綷	*ʔsuːds
淬	*sʰuːds
啐	*sʰuːds, *suːds, *sʰroːds, *ʔsud
倅	*sʰuːds, *ʔsuːd
焠	*sʰuːds
碎	*suːds
誶	*suːds, *suds, *zud
濢	*ʔslulʔ, *sʰluds
噿	*ʔslulʔ
臎	*ʔslulʔ, *sʰluds
醉	*ʔsuds
翠	*sʰuds
悴	*zuds
萃	*zuds
瘁	*zuds
顇	*zuds
粹	*suds
睟	*suds
賥	*suds
卒	*ʔsuːd, *sʰuːd, *ʔsud
稡	*ʔsuːd
猝	*sʰuːd
椊	*zuːd
捽	*zuːd, *zud
崪	*zuːd
窣	*suːd
崒	*zud
踤	*zud
錊	*ʔsuːɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cuì (cui⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄨㄟˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): seoi⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: cuì
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄨㄟˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cuèi
    • Wade–Giles: tsʻui⁴
    • Yale: tswèi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsuey
    • Palladius: цуй (cuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰu̯eɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: seoi⁶
    • Yale: seuih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soey⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: sêu⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɵy̯²²/

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• Middle Chinese: dzwijH

Rime
Character	萃
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	從 (15)
Final (韻)	脂 (16)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	秦醉切
Baxter	dzwijH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ziuɪH/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡zʷiH/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡zjuɪH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡zwiH/
Li Rong	/d͡zuiH/
Wang Li	/d͡zwiH/
Bernard Karlgren	/d͡zʱwiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zuì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zeoi6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[dz][u]p-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*zuds/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	萃
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	cuì
Middle Chinese	‹ dzwijH ›
Old Chinese	/*[dz][u]p-s/
English	collect, crowd
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	萃
Reading #	1/1
No.	17948
Phonetic component	卒
Rime group	隊
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	萃
Old Chinese	/*zuds/

Definitions

萃

1. to gather; to collect; to assemble
2. gathering; group
3. to stop; to halt
4. Alternative form of 悴 (cuì)

Compounds

• 人文薈萃／人文荟萃
• 出群拔萃
• 出類拔萃／出类拔萃 (chūlèibácuì)
• 拔群出萃
• 拔萃 (bácuì)
• 拔萃出群
• 拔萃出類／拔萃出类
• 拔萃書室／拔萃书室
• 會萃／会萃
• 萃取 (cuìqǔ)
• 萃然
• 蕉萃 (qiáocuì)
• 薈萃／荟萃 (huìcuì)
• 薈萃一堂／荟萃一堂
• 金石萃編／金石萃编
• 金陀萃編／金陀萃编
• 集萃 (jícuì)
• 鱗萃／鳞萃
• 鳥集鱗萃／鸟集鳞萃
• 麇集蜂萃

 

Japanese

Kanji

萃

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. collect
2. gather
3. assemble

Readings

• Go-on: ずい (zui)
• Kan-on: すい (sui)
• On: さい (sai)
• Kun: あつまる (atsumaru, 萃まる); くさむら (kusamura)
• Nanori: あつむ (atsumu)

Korean

Hanja

萃 • (chwe, chwi, chae) (hangeul 췌, 취, 채, revised chwe, chwi, chae, McCune–Reischauer ch'we, ch'wi, ch'ae, Yale chwey, chwi, chay)

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Vietnamese

Han character

萃: Hán Nôm readings: tụy/tuỵ

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References

• Nom Foundation