節

See also: 节 and 卩

Translingual

Etymology

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

Han character

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

1. knot, node, joint, link
2. section, link
3. Day (used at the end of holidays)
4. 60th hexagram of the I Ching

Derived characters

• 櫛, 癤

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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Chinese

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trad.		節
simp.		节

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jié (jie²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄝˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zit³
• Min Nan (POJ): chat / cheh / choeh / chiat

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: jié
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄝˊ
    • Wade-Giles: chieh²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jye
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɛ³⁵/

    • (file)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zit³
    • Yale: jit
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzit⁸
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡siːt̚³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chat / cheh / choeh / chiat
    • Tâi-lô: tsat / tseh / tsueh / tsiat
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sat̚³²/, /t͡seʔ³²/, /t͡sueʔ³²/, /t͡ɕiat̚³²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sat̚³²/, /t͡seʔ³²/, /t͡sueʔ³²/, /t͡ɕiat̚³²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (節, reconstructed)
Character (節), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 精 (13) Final: 屑 Division: IV			Openness: Open Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 子結切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/t͡set̚/	/t͡siet̚/	/t͡set̚/	/t͡set̚/	/t͡sɛt̚/	/t͡siet̚/	/t͡sɛt̚/

Old Chinese pronunciation (節, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
節								jié								‹ tset ›								/*tsˤik/								joint
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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
節					5713					即					質					2					節					/*ʔsiːɡ/

Compounds

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

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Japanese

Kanji

節

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

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

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)

Noun

節 (hiragana ふし, romaji fushi)

1. knuckle, joint
2. melody

   Aにふしをつける

   A ni fushi o tsukeru

   set A to tune

3. point

節 (hiragana せつ, romaji setsu)

1. occasion, time
2. a person's principles
3. paragraph, stanza, clause

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Usage notes

As a suffix, it can mean day.

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Vietnamese

Han character

節 (tiết, tét, tết, tít, tịt, típ)

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