jié

clean

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

water

絜 sound component

  Sound component

jiéxié

  

a marking line

Evolution

潔 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
潔 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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jié

clean, purify, pure; clean

Most common words with 潔
Freq.
Word
Meaning

清洁

clean

clean

纯洁

pure

简洁

concise

清洁工

cleaner

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[k]ˤet

ket

jié

pure, purify


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 17.4115% of movies

1465th most common character in movies

1531st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

Unicode

U+6F54

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“潔,瀞也。从水,絜聲。”


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