絕

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絕 U+7D55, 絕
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7D55
← 絔
[U+7D54]		 CJK Unified Ideographs 絖 →
[U+7D56]
See also: 絶 and 绝

Translingual[edit]

Traditional 絕
Shinjitai 絶
Simplified 绝

Etymology[edit]

In the simplified form 绝 (and the traditional variant 絶), the right-side components are merged into 色; however, as a standalone character, 色 is of uncertain origin — it is unknown whether it is relevant to 絕.

Han character[edit]

絕 (radical 120 糸+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女火尸竹山 (VFSHU), four-corner 27917, composition ⿰糹⿱刀巴)

References[edit]

  • 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[edit]

trad. 絕/絶
simp. 绝

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character 絕
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
絕-oracle.svg 絕-bronze.svg 絕-silk.svg 絕-bigseal.svg 絕-seal.svg
Characters in the same phonetic series (絕) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
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[edit]

Note:
  • choa̍t - literary;
  • che̍rh/che̍h - vernacular.
  • 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
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)
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;
* 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 絕
Reading # 1/1
No. 7252
Phonetic
component		 絕
Rime
group		 月
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 絕
Old
Chinese		 /*zod/

Definitions[edit]

絕

  1. to cut; to sever
  2. to break off
  3. to terminate
  4. (colloquial) cool; awesome
    太絕了 / 太绝了  ―  tài jué le  ―  way cool; awesome
  5. (colloquial) extreme; excessive; too far
  6. most; majority of
  7. definitely; certainly

Compounds[edit]

Derived terms from 絕

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

絕

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings[edit]

Usage notes[edit]

This character has never been used in modern Japanese. The current form is 絶.

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

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

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Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

絕 (tuyệt)

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