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絕
絕
Translingual
Han character
絕 (radical 120 糸+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女火尸竹山 (VFSHU), four-corner 27917, composition ⿰糹⿱刀巴)
References
- KangXi: page 922, character 4
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27407
- Dae Jaweon: page 1355, character 9
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3396, character 4
- Unihan data for U+7D55
Chinese
| trad. | 絕/絶 | |
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| simp. | 绝 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 絕
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| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Bamboo and silk script | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (絕) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 蕝 | *ʔsods, *ʔsod |
| 脃 | *sʰods |
| 脆 | *sʰods |
| 絕 | *zod |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *zod) : semantic 糹 (“silk”) + semantic 刀 (“knife”) + phonetic 巴 — to cut silk threads.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): zyut6, zyut3
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhie̍t
- Min Dong (BUC): ciŏk
- Min Nan (POJ): che̍h / choa̍t
- Wu (Wiktionary): xxiq (T5)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄐㄩㄝˊ
- Wade-Giles: chüeh2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyue
- IPA (key): /t͡ɕɥ̯œ³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: zyut6, zyut3
- Yale: jyuht, jyut
- Cantonese Pinyin: dzyt9, dzyt8
- IPA (key): /t͡ɕyːt̚²/, /t͡ɕyːt̚³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhie̍t
- Hakka Romanization System: qied
- Hagfa Pinyim: qiad6
- IPA: /t͡ɕʰi̯et̚⁵/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: ciŏk
- IPA (key): /t͡suoʔ⁵⁵/
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: che̍h / choa̍t
- Tâi-lô: tse̍h / tsua̍t
- Phofsit Daibuun: zeh, zoat
- IPA (Xiamen): /t͡seʔ⁴/, /t͡suat̚⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡seʔ²⁴/, /t͡suat̚²⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡seʔ¹²¹/, /t͡suat̚¹²¹/
- IPA (Taipei): /t͡seʔ⁴/, /t͡suat̚⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡seʔ⁴/, /t͡suat̚⁴/
- Note: che̍h - vernacular; choa̍t - literary.
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: xxiq (T5)
- IPA (key): /ʑ̻i̯ɪʔ¹²/
- (Shanghainese)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 絕 |
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | Beijing | /t͡ɕyɛ³⁵/ |
| Harbin | /t͡ɕyɛ²⁴/ | |
| Tianjin | /t͡ɕye⁴⁵/ | |
| Jinan | /t͡ɕyə⁴²/ | |
| Qingdao | /t͡syə⁴²/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /t͡syɛ⁴²/ | |
| Xi'an | /t͡ɕyɛ²⁴/ | |
| Xining | /t͡ɕyu²⁴/ | |
| Yinchuan | /t͡ɕye¹³/ | |
| Lanzhou | /t͡ɕyə⁵³/ | |
| Ürümqi | /t͡ɕyɤ⁵¹/ | |
| Wuhan | /t͡ɕie²¹³/ | |
| Chengdu | /t͡ɕye³¹/ | |
| Guiyang | /t͡ɕie²¹/ | |
| Kunming | /t͡ɕiɛ³¹/ | |
| Nanjing | /t͡syeʔ⁵/ | |
| Hefei | /t͡ɕyɐʔ⁵/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /t͡ɕyəʔ⁵⁴/ |
| Pingyao | /t͡ɕyʌʔ⁵³/ | |
| Hohhot | /t͡ɕyaʔ⁴³/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /ʑiɪʔ¹/ |
| Suzhou | /ziəʔ³/ | |
| Hangzhou | /d͡ʑiəʔ²/ | |
| Wenzhou | /jy²¹³/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /t͡ɕyeʔ²¹/ |
| Tunxi | /t͡ɕyɛ⁵/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /t͡sie²⁴/ |
| Xiangtan | /t͡sie²⁴/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /t͡ɕʰyɵʔ²/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /t͡sʰiet̚⁵/ |
| Taoyuan | /t͡sʰiet̚⁵⁵/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /t͡syt̚²/ |
| Nanning | /t͡syt̚²²/ | |
| Hong Kong | /t͡syt̚²/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) |
/t͡suat̚⁵/ /t͡seʔ⁵/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /t͡suoʔ⁵/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /t͡syɛ⁴²/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /t͡soʔ⁵/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) | /tuak̚³/ |
| Rime | |
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| Character | 絕 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 從 (15) |
| Final (韻) | 薛 (82) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 情雪切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/d͡ziuᴇt̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/d͡zʷiɛt̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/d͡zjuæt̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/d͡zwiat̚/ |
| Li Rong |
/d͡ziuɛt̚/ |
| Wang Li |
/d͡zĭuɛt̚/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/d͡zʱi̯wɛt̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
jué |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
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| Character | 絕 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
jué |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ dzjwet › |
| Old Chinese |
/*[dz]ot/ |
| English | cut off |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
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| Character | 絕 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 7252 |
| Phonetic component |
絕 |
| Rime group |
月 |
| Rime subdivision |
3 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
絕 |
| Old Chinese |
/*zod/ |
Definitions
絕
- to cut; to sever
- to break off
- to terminate
- (colloquial) cool; awesome
- (colloquial) extreme; excessive; too far
- most; majority of
- definitely; certainly
Compounds
Derived terms from 絕
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Japanese
Kanji
絕
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Readings
Usage notes
This character has never been used in modern Japanese. The current form is 絶.
Korean
Hanja
絕 • (jeol) (hangeul 절, revised jeol, McCune-Reischauer chŏl, Yale cel)
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Vietnamese
Han character
絕 (tuyệt)
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