jué

take leave of

Words  said at a parting  also provides the pronunciation

Components
言 meaning component

  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

夬 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

guài

  

parted

Evolution

訣 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
訣 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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jué

take leave of, bid farewell; to bid farewell; tricks of the trade; pithy mnemonic formula (e.g. Mao Zedong's 16-character mantra 十六字訣|十六字诀 on guerrilla warfare)

Most common words with 訣
Freq.
Word
Meaning

秘诀

secret know-how

诀窍

secret

farewell

口诀

mnemonic chant

诀别

to bid farewell

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[k]ʷˤet

kwet

jué

farewell words


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.8283% of movies

2719th most common character in movies

2845th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Simplified

Unicode

U+8A23

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“訣,訣別也。一曰法也。从言,決省聲。”


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