# 萃

| 萃 | U+8403, &#33795; 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 4440$_8$, composition ⿱艹卒)
* dense, thick, close-set
* to collect together
* 45th hexagram of the I Ching

#### Derived characters

* 㵏, 𭧩, 㯜, 膵, 𲇥, 𩦗

#### 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
### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 萃 :
| Western Zhou | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) |
| Bronze inscriptions | Small seal script |
| | 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 (cui$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄘㄨㄟˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): seoi$^6$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: cuì
*** Zhuyin: ㄘㄨㄟˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: cuèi
*** Wade–Giles: tsʻui$^4$
*** Yale: tswèi
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsuey
*** Palladius: цуй (cuj)
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sʰu̯eɪ̯⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: seoi$^6$
*** Yale: seuih
*** Cantonese Pinyin: soey$^6$
*** Guangdong Romanization: sêu$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /sɵy̯²²/
* 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 | /d͡ziuɪ$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /d͡zʷi$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /d͡zjuɪ$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /d͡zwi$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /d͡zui$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /d͡zwi$^H$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /d͡zʱwi$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | zuì |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | zeoi$^6$ |
* 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 | ‹ dzwij$^H$ › |
| 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
* to gather; to collect; to assemble
* gathering; group
* to stop; to halt
* 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

(Hyōgai kanji)
* collect
* gather
* 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