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接

jiē

receive

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 妾 represents the sound.

Components
扌 meaning component

扌  Meaning component

shou, shǒu

  

hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

妾 sound component

妾  Sound component

qiè

  

concubine

Evolution

接 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
接 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
接 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
接 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
接 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

接  

jiē

receive; continue; catch; connect; to receive; to answer (the phone); to meet or welcome sb; to connect; to catch; to join; to extend; to take one's turn on duty; to take over for sb

Most common words with 接
Freq.
Word
Meaning

接

to receive

接受

to accept

直接

direct

接近

to approach

接触

to touch

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ts][a]p

tsjep

jiē

connect


Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 96.3639% of movies

222nd most common character in movies

247th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+63A5

Shuowen

“接，交也。从手，妾聲。”


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