漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
催: sponsor, hold (a meeting)
Also: give (a dinner)
JLPT N113 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
- 亻person(meaning)
- 崔(sound)
亻 carries the meaning · 崔 gives the sound
13 strokes
Two readings, and the words that use each
サイsai · on'yomi · in compounds
- 開催かいさいholding (a conference, exhibition, etc.)
- 主催しゅさいsponsorship (i.e. conducting under one's…
- 共催きょうさいjoint sponsorship (of an event)
- 催涙さいるいtear-inducing
- 催促さいそくpressing; urging; demanding
もよおすmoyoosu · kun'yomi · on its own
- 催しもよおしevent; festivities; function
- 催すもよおすto hold (an event)
Also read もようす, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)人 person, as 亻 (meaning) + 崔 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 催 (rev. 92199938), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“See the person standing tall, ready to interact with the world! When this radical appears on the left, it signals that the kanji describes a human quality, a social relationship, or an action that people perform.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side催 sponsor · 亻 + 崔
vs稚 immature · 禾 + 隹In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · cuī
Same form: 催 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 催 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 催 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin cuī most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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