催 (cuī)
to urge/to rush someone
How 催 is written
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 亻 — human
- Traditional
- 催
- Simplified
- 催 (unchanged)
Components
- 亻 human
- 山 mountain
- 隹 small bird
Common words using 催
- 催促 cuīcù
- to urge
- 催化劑 cuīhuàjì
- catalyst
- 催淚 cuīlèi
- to move to tears (of a story); tear-provoking (gas); lacrimogen
- 催熟 cuīshú
- to promote ripening of fruit
- 催生 cuīshēng
- to induce labor; to expedite childbirth
- 催眠 cuīmián
- hypnosis
- 催乳 cuīrǔ
- to promote lactation; to stimulate lactation (e.g. with drug)
- 催化 cuīhuà
- catalysis; to catalyze (a reaction)
- 催吐 cuītù
- emetic
- 催命 cuīmìng
- to press sb to death; fig. to pressurize sb continually
- 催奶 cuīnǎi
- to promote lactation; to stimulate lactation (e.g. with drug)
- 催情 cuīqíng
- to promote estrus; to bring an animal to heat by artificial means
催 in a sentence
不要一直催我，我快做好了。
Bùyào yīzhí cuī wǒ, wǒ kuài zuò hǎo le.
“Don't keep rushing me, I'm almost done.”
How common is 催?
催 is the 2,060th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 97.4% of all running text.
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