jié, jiē
holiday
Original meaning:
bamboo joint
Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and 即 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "bamboo joint". Later used as a measure word for segments and divisions of time.
Evolution

Bronze script
Warring States (475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*tsˤik | tset | jié | joint |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 68.3486% of movies
402nd most common character in movies
514th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7BC0 |
Shuowen | “節,竹約也。从竹,即聲。” |
Sources
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