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U+8106, 脆
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8106

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 130, +6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 月弓一山 (BNMU), four-corner 77212, composition )

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 982, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29468
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1434, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2069, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+8106

Chinese

trad.
simp. #
alternative forms


Glyph origin

Originally . Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *sʰods) : semantic (meat) + abbreviated phonetic (OC *zod).

“Threads”
Phono-semantic matching from English.

Pronunciation


Note:
  • chhùi - literary;
  • chhèr/chhè - vernacular.

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /t͡sʰuei⁵¹/
Harbin /t͡sʰuei⁵³/
Tianjin /t͡sʰuei⁵³/
Jinan /t͡sʰuei²¹/
Qingdao /ʈ͡ʂʰue⁴²/
Zhengzhou /t͡sʰuei³¹²/
Xi'an /t͡sʰuei⁴⁴/
Xining /t͡sʰuɨ²¹³/
Yinchuan /t͡sʰuei⁵³/ 易折損
/t͡sʰuei¹³/ 清~
Lanzhou /t͡sʰuei¹³/
Ürümqi /t͡sʰuei²¹³/
Wuhan /t͡sʰei³⁵/
Chengdu /t͡sʰuei¹³/
Guiyang /t͡sʰuei²¹³/
Kunming /t͡sʰuei²¹²/
Nanjing /t͡sʰuəi⁴⁴/
Hefei /t͡sʰe⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡sʰuei⁴⁵/
Pingyao /t͡sʰuei³⁵/
Hohhot /t͡sʰuei⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /t͡sʰe³⁵/
Suzhou /t͡sʰe̞⁵¹³/
Hangzhou /t͡sʰz̩ʷei⁴⁴⁵/
Wenzhou /t͡sʰai³⁵/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕʰye³²⁴/
/t͡ɕʰy³²⁴/
Tunxi /t͡sʰe⁴²/
Xiang Changsha /t͡sʰei⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /t͡sʰəi⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /t͡sʰui²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sʰoi⁵³/
Taoyuan
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sʰøy³³/
Nanning /t͡sʰui³³/
Hong Kong /t͡sʰøy³³/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /t͡sʰui²¹/
/t͡sʰe²¹/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /t͡sʰuɔi²¹²/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /t͡sʰo³³/
Shantou (Teochew) /t͡sʰui⁵³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /sui³⁵/
/se³⁵/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (14)
Final () (36)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter tshjwejH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡sʰiuᴇiH/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡sʰʷiɛiH/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡sʰiuæiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/t͡sʰwiajH/
Li
Rong
/t͡sʰiuɛiH/
Wang
Li
/t͡sʰĭwɛiH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡sʰi̯wɛiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
cuì
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
ceoi3
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
cuì
Middle
Chinese
‹ tshjwejH ›
Old
Chinese
/*o-s/
English brittle

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

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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
Reading # 1/1
No. 7250
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sʰods/
Notes

Definitions

  1. brittle; fragile
  2. (of food) crisp; crispy
    燒肉烧肉  ―  cuì pí shāoròu  ―  siu yuk with crispy skin
  3. (of voices) clear; crisp
      ―  qīngcuì  ―  clear and crisp
  4. (of speech or action) neat; quick; concise
  5. (Taiwan, neologism, slang) Threads (a social media platform under Meta Platforms)

Synonyms

  • (crisp):
  • (clear):

Antonyms

  • (antonym(s) of fragile): (rèn)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. brittle
  2. fragile
  3. easy to beat
  4. sentimental
  5. susceptible

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese (MC tshjwejH).

Pronunciation

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

(eumhun 연(軟)할 (yeonhal chwi))

  1. crisp
  2. fragile, frail
  3. brittle

Compounds

References

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: thúy/thuý

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