jué
cut
Depicts a knife (刀) cutting a thread (糸). 卩 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[dz]ot | dzjwet | jué | cut off |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 80.1538% of movies
429th most common character in movies
562nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7D55 |
Shuowen | “絕,斷絲也。从糸,从刀,从卩。,古文絕,象不連體,絕二絲。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.888
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