節

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Han character 1.2.1 Descendants 1.2.2 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 3.1.2 Compounds 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 5.1.1 Compounds 6 Middle Chinese 6.1 Han character 7 Vietnamese 7.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 竹 (“‘bamboo’”) + phonetic 即

[edit] Han character

節 (radical 118 竹+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 竹日戈中 (HAIL), four-corner 8872₇)

1. knot, node, joint
2. section
3. Day (used at the end of holidays)

[edit] Descendants

• 櫛, 癤

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 891, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26102
• Dae Jaweon: page 1318, character 29
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2976, character 4
• Unihan data for U+7BC0

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

節 (Yale jit3)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

節 (grade 4 kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: せつ (setsu), せち (sechi)
• Kun: ふし (fushi), みさお (misao)

[edit] Compounds

節介 節季 節句 節奏 節操 節度 節分

節目 節約 節理 季節 (きせつ, kisetsu) 文節 指関節 (ゆびかんせつ, yubikansetsu)

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

節 (hangeul 절, revised jeol, McCune-Reischauer chŏl, Yale cel)

As a suffix, it can mean day.

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

節 (simplified 节, pinyin jié (jie2), Wade-Giles chieh²)

[edit] Compounds

• 光明節 (Guangmingjie)
• 聖誕節 (Shengdanjie)

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[edit] Middle Chinese

[edit] Han character

節 (*tzet)

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

節 (tiết, tét, tết, tít, tịt, típ)