絕

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

Translingual[edit]

Traditional 絕
Shinjitai 絶
Simplified 绝

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 or ⿰糸⿱刀巴)

Related characters[edit]

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
Shang Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Chu Slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
絕-oracle.svg 絕-bronze.svg 絕-silk.svg 絕-seal.svg 絕-bigseal.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 (卩) — to cut silk threads.

Pronunciation[edit]

Note:
  • che̍h/che̍rh/chēr - vernacular;
  • choa̍t - literary.
  • Wu
    • 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 break off; to cut off; to sever
    2. to terminate; to discontinue; to break off
    3. to exhaust; to use up
    4. superb; peerless; matchless
    5. most; majority of
    6. to the extreme; to the utmost
    7. absolutely; definitely; certainly
    8. to die
    9. to despair; to give up hope; to be desperate
    10. (poetry) jueju
    11. to wither and fall
    12. faraway; distant; remote
    13. (colloquial) cool; awesome
      太絕了 / 太绝了  ―  tài jué le  ―  way cool; awesome
    14. (colloquial) extreme; excessive; too far

    Synonyms[edit]

    • (to break off):
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    • (to terminate):
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    • (to exhaust):
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    Synonyms of 絕
    • (to despair):
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    • (faraway):
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    • 迢迢 (tiáotiáo) (literary)

    Compounds[edit]

    Derived terms from 絕

    Japanese[edit]

    Kanji[edit]

    絕

    (uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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    Readings[edit]

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

    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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