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摧 character · C1 (est.)
摧 ＝ 扌 ＋ 崔
ㄘㄨㄟ · cuī
verb — to break down, destroy; to crush

字源 FORM — what the parts do

扌義the hand
崔聲cuī — a bird (隹) on a mountain (山), high; gives the sound
The hand (扌) bears down and breaks a thing — to crush, to destroy. 崔 cuī, the high mountain with a bird atop it, carries the sound exactly. So 摧毀 wrecks, 摧折 snaps, 摧殘 ruins, 無堅不摧 leaves no hard thing standing.

故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by

一隻手（扌）狠狠壓下，硬挺的東西應聲折斷。
A hand (扌) bears down hard, and the stiff thing snaps under it.
字源記憶法
意 · Meanings
(本義)摧毀、摧折— to break down, destroy常用
→摧殘— to ravage, ruin — to break a thing down by degrees
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension
關 · Related
崔cuīthe phonetic, the bare high peak — 摧 sets the hand 扌 to it催＝ 亻 ＋ 崔cuīthe lookalike — same 崔 sound, but on 亻 (a person), to urge, hurry