jié, jiē
knot, tie
Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 吉 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kˤi[t] | ket | jié | tie (v.) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 94.0253% of movies
243rd most common character in movies
236th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7D50 |
Shuowen | “結,締也。从糸,吉聲。” |
Sources
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