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 (Liushutong characters) and
Yinxu 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

Mandarin
(Pinyin): cuī (cui¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄘㄨㄟ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ceoi¹
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhûi
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): chhui

(Teochew, Peng'im): cui¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: cuī
  - Zhuyin: ㄘㄨㄟ
  - Wade–Giles: ts'ui¹
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsuei
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰu̯eɪ̯⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: ceoi¹
  - Yale: chēui
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsoey¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: cêu¹
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡ʃʰɵy̯⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhûi
  - Hakka Romanization System: cui´
  - Hagfa Pinyim: cui¹
  - IPA: /t͡sʰu̯i²⁴/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhui
  - Tâi-lô: tshui
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zhuy
  - IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰui⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰui³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰui⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰui⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰui⁴⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: cui¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshui
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰui³³/

Middle Chinese: /t͡sʰuʌi/▼

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

Old Chinese▼
(Baxter–Sagart): /*s-tʰˤuj/

(Zhengzhang): /*sʰluːl/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	催
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	cuī
Middle Chinese	‹ tshwoj ›
Old Chinese	/*s-tʰˁuj/
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

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 jiu³ ceoi¹ nei⁵ gaa³? [Jyutping]
Why do I always have to urge you?
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 (cuīmìng)
催命符
催命鬼
催奶 (cuīnǎi)
催批
催明鳥／催明鸟
催淚彈／催泪弹 (cuīlèidàn)

催淚瓦斯／催泪瓦斯
催熟 (cuīshú)
催生 (cuīshēng)
催產／催产 (cuīchǎn)
催眠 (cuīmián)
催眠劑／催眠剂 (cuīmiánjì)
催眠曲 (cuīmiánqǔ)
催眠術／催眠术 (cuīmiánshù)
催督 (cuīdū)
催科
催租
催花雨
催芽
催討／催讨 (cuītǎo)

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

Go-on: せ (se)
Kan-on: さい (sai, Jōyō)
Kun: もよおす (moyoosu, 催す, Jōyō); うながす (unagasu, 催す)

Compounds

催告 (さいこく) (saikoku)
催促 (さいそく) (saisoku)
催眠 (さいみん)術 (じゅつ) (saiminjutsu)
催涙 (さいるい) (sairui)
催涙弾 (さいるいだん) (sairuidan)

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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