碎

See also: 砕

Translingual

Stroke order
File:碎-order.gif

Han character

碎 (Kangxi radical 112, 石+8, 13 strokes, cangjie input 一口卜人十 (MRYOJ), four-corner 1064₈, composition ⿰石卒)

Descendants

• 砕

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 832, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24284
• Dae Jaweon: page 1248, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2439, character 9
• Unihan data for U+788E

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		碎

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 碎
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (卒) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	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): suì (sui⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄨㄟˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): seoi³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sui
• Northern Min (KCR): cho̿
• Eastern Min (BUC): chó̤i
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): sùi / chhùi

  (Teochew, Peng'im): cui³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: suì
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄨㄟˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: suèi
    • Wade–Giles: sui⁴
    • Yale: swèi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: suey
    • Palladius: суй (suj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /su̯eɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: seoi³
    • Yale: seui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soey³
    • Guangdong Romanization: sêu³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɵy̯³³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sui
    • Hakka Romanization System: sui
    • Hagfa Pinyim: sui⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /su̯i⁵⁵/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: cho̿
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰo³³/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: chó̤i
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɔy²¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sùi
    • Tâi-lô: suì
    • Phofsit Daibuun: suix
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /sui²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sui⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhùi
    • Tâi-lô: tshuì
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhuix
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰui⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰui¹¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰui²¹/

Note:

• sùi - literary;
• chhùi - vernacular.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: cui³
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshùi
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰui²¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: swojH

Rime
Character	碎
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	灰 (42)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	蘇内切
Baxter	swojH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/suʌiH/
Pan Wuyun	/suoiH/
Shao Rongfen	/suɒiH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/swəjH/
Li Rong	/suᴀiH/
Wang Li	/suɒiH/
Bernard Karlgren	/suɑ̆iH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	suì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	seoi3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[s-tsʰ]ˤu[t]-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*suːds/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	碎
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	suì
Middle Chinese	‹ swojH ›
Old Chinese	/*[s-tsʰ]ˁu[t]-s/
English	break
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	碎
Reading #	1/1
No.	17936
Phonetic component	卒
Rime group	隊
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*suːds/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 碎

1. shattered; fragmented; shredded

   碎片  ―  suìpiàn  ―  chip; fragment

   啲薯片碎嗮喇。 [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]

   di¹ syu⁴ pin^3-2 seoi³ saai³ laa³. [Jyutping]

   The chips are all crushed.

2. small pieces; bits; fragments

   玻璃碎  ―  bōlísuì  ―  glass shards

   肉碎  ―  ròusuì  ―  minced meat

3. to shatter; to fragment; to shred

   碎紙機／碎纸机  ―  suìzhǐjī  ―  paper shredder

4. talkative

   閒言碎語／闲言碎语  ―  xiányánsuìyǔ  ―  gossip

   碎嘴子  ―  suìzuǐzǐ  ―  talkative

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Shinjitai	砕
Kyūjitai	碎

Kanji

碎

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 砕)

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Readings

• Go-on: さい (sai)
• Kan-on: さい (sai)
• Kun: くだく (kudaku, 碎く); くだける (kudakeru, 碎ける); はたく (hataku, 碎く)

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Korean

Hanja

碎 • (swae) (hangeul 쇄, revised swae, McCune–Reischauer swae, Yale sway)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 碎 (toái, thỏi, tôi, toả, tui, tủi)

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