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Translingual

Han character

(radical 85 +12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 水手竹火 (EQHF), four-corner 37193, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 648, character 40
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18231
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1058, character 23
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1743, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+6F54

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*pʰoŋ, *boŋ, *ɡaːds
*kreːds
*kʰjeds, *ɡeːds, *kʰjed
*ɡjeds
*kʰeːds, *kʰeːd, *kʰeːd, *kʰɯd
*kʰeːds
*ɡeːds
*ɡeːds
*kreːd, *sqʰeːd
*kʰreːd
*qreːd, *kraːd, *kʰeːd
*qreːd
*sqʰeːd
*sqʰeːd
*keːd
*keːd, *ɡeːd
*keːd, *kʰeːd
*kʰeːd
*kʰeːd
*ŋeːd
*qʰeːd
*ŋ̥ʰeːɡ

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /t͡ɕiɛ³⁵/
Harbin /t͡ɕiɛ²⁴/
Tianjin /t͡ɕie⁴⁵/
Jinan /t͡ɕiə⁴²/
Qingdao /t͡ɕiə⁴²/
Zhengzhou /t͡ɕiɛ⁴²/
Xi'an /t͡ɕiɛ²⁴/
Xining /t͡ɕi²⁴/
Yinchuan /t͡ɕie¹³/
Lanzhou /t͡ɕiə¹³/
Ürümqi /t͡ɕiɤ⁵¹/
Wuhan /t͡ɕie²¹³/
Chengdu /t͡ɕie³¹/
Guiyang /t͡ɕie²¹/
Kunming /t͡ɕiɛ³¹/
Nanjing /t͡ɕieʔ⁵/
Hefei /t͡ɕiɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡ɕiəʔ²/
Pingyao /t͡ɕiʌʔ¹³/
Hohhot /t͡ɕiaʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /t͡ɕiɪʔ⁵/
Suzhou /t͡ɕiəʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /t͡ɕiəʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /t͡ɕi²¹³/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕieʔ²¹/
Tunxi /t͡ɕia⁵/
Xiang Changsha /t͡ɕie²⁴/
Xiangtan /t͡ɕie²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /t͡ɕiɛʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /kiat̚¹/
Taoyuan
Cantonese Guangzhou /kit̚³/
Nanning /kit̚³³/
Hong Kong /kit̚³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /kiat̚³²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /kaiʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /kiɛ²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /kiak̚²/
Haikou (Min Nan) /kit̚⁵/
/ke⁵⁵/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (87)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () IV
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ket̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/ket̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/kɛt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kɛt̚/
Li
Rong
/ket̚/
Wang
Li
/kiet̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kiet̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jie
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
jié
Middle
Chinese
‹ ket ›
Old
Chinese
/*[k]ˤet/
English pure, purify

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 6507
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*keːd/

Definitions

  1. clean; pure
  2. to clean; to purify

Compounds

  • 不清不潔不清不洁
  • 乾圓潔淨干圆洁净
  • 保潔保洁
  • 光潔光洁
  • 光潔度光洁度
  • 冰清玉潔冰清玉洁
  • 廉潔廉洁 (liánjié)
  • 廉潔奉公廉洁奉公
  • 心誠意潔心诚意洁
  • 才高行潔才高行洁
  • 整潔整洁 (zhěngjié)
  • 水潔冰清水洁冰清
  • 涓潔涓洁
  • 清潔清洁 (qīngjié)
  • 清潔劑清洁剂
  • 清潔溜溜清洁溜溜
  • 清潔者清洁者
  • 源清流潔源清流洁
  • 潔婦洁妇
  • 潔己洁己
  • 潔己奉公洁己奉公
  • 潔己愛人洁己爱人
  • 潔操履洁操履
  • 潔敬洁敬
  • 潔樽洁樽
  • 潔淨洁净
  • 潔癖洁癖 (jiépǐ)
  • 潔白洁白 (jiébái)
  • 潔白無瑕洁白无瑕
  • 潔言汙行洁言污行
  • 潔身洁身
  • 潔身自好洁身自好
  • 潔身自愛洁身自爱
  • 潔郎洁郎
  • 潔齒劑洁齿剂
  • 玉潔冰清玉洁冰清
  • 皎潔皎洁
  • 簡潔简洁 (jiǎnjié)
  • 精潔精洁
  • 純潔纯洁 (chúnjié)
  • 聖潔圣洁
  • 貞潔贞洁 (zhēnjié)
  • 雅潔雅洁
  • 高潔高洁
  • 齋潔斋洁

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Proper noun

(hiragana きよし, romaji Kiyoshi)

  1. A male given name

Korean

Hanja

(gyeol) (hangeul , revised gyeol, McCune-Reischauer kyŏl, Yale kyel)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(khiết)

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Readings

  • Nôm: khét, khiết, khít

References

  • Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
  • Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
  • Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm , NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999