HSK 5 · Verbs

催 cuī “to urge” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 催 means

  1. to urge
  2. to press
  3. to prompt
  4. to rush sb
  5. to hasten sth
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • to expedite

How to say 催

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale催cuī1st tone, high and level

催 in a sentence

  1. 催促客户去完成一件任务是很让人头疼的事。

    Cuīcù kèhù qù wánchéng yí jiàn rènwu shì hěn ràng rén tóuténg de shì.

    Pushing clients to finish a task can be a real headache.

    Sentence #2431766 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 溪流潺潺，催我入眠。

    Xīliú chánchán, cuī wǒ rùmián.

    The babbling of the brook lulls me to sleep.

    Sentence #2221100 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 催 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 催 (cuī) with each of its parts in a different colour
催cuīto urge
  • 亻person form of 人 · rénMeaning part
  • 崔high · cuīSound part

亻 hints at the meaning (person); 崔 (cuī) hints at the sound. Compare it with cuī.

How to write 催

催 13 strokes

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催 (cuī) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 催 (cuī). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 催

More words: Common Verbs

吹chuī · to blow刺激cìjī · to stimulate促进cùjìn · to promote (an idea or cause)促使cùshǐ · to induce存在cúnzài · to exist达到dádào · to reach代表dàibiǎo · representative代替dàitì · to replace

FAQs

催 (cuī) means “to urge” or “to press”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it cuī: cuī with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 催 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type cui with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 催 from the suggestions. Typing cui into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
催 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.