絕

See also: 絶 and 绝

Translingual

Etymology

Historical forms of the character 絕
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bamboo and silk script	Large seal script	Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *zod): semantic 糹 ‎(“silk”) + semantic 刀 ‎(“knife”) + phonetic 巴 — to cut silk threads.

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

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

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Chinese

trad.		絕/絶
simp.		绝

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jué (jue²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄩㄝˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zyut⁶, zyut³
• Min Nan (POJ): che̍h / choa̍t

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: jué
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄩㄝˊ
    • Wade-Giles: chüeh²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyue
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕɥ̯œ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zyut⁶, zyut³
    • Yale: jyuht, jyut
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzyt⁹, dzyt⁸
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕyːt̚²/, /t͡ɕyːt̚³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: che̍h / choa̍t
    • Tâi-lô: tse̍h / tsua̍t
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zeh, zoat
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡seʔ⁴/, /t͡suat̚⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡seʔ¹²¹/, /t͡suat̚¹²¹/
    • Note: che̍h - vernacular; choa̍t - literary.

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 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/

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• Middle Chinese: /d͡ziuᴇt̚/▼

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

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[dz]ot/

  (Zhengzhang): /*zod/

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/

Verb

絕

1. to cut; to sever
2. to break off
3. to terminate

Adjective

絕

1. (slang) cool; awesome

   太絕了 / 太绝了  ―  tài jué le  ―  way cool; awesome

Adverb

絕

1. definitely; certainly

See also

• 絕對／绝对 (juéduì)

References

• Li, Shujuan (2008) Popular Chinese Expressions (流行汉语) (in English/Mandarin), 2nd edition, Beijing: Sinolingua, ISBN 978-7-80200-388-0

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Japanese

Kanji

絕

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: ぜつ (zetsu)
• Kun: たえる (taeru), たつ (tatsu), たやす (tayasu)

Usage notes

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

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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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