絕

See also: 絶 and 绝
絕 U+7D55, 絕
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7D55
← 絔
[U+7D54] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 絖 →
[U+7D56]

Translingual

Traditional 絕
Shinjitai 絶
Simplified 绝

Han character

絕 (radical 120, 糸+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女火尸竹山 (VFSHU), four-corner 27917, composition ⿰糹⿱刀巴)

References

  • KangXi: page 922, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27407
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1355, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3396, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+7D55

Chinese

trad. 絕/絶
simp. 绝

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 絕
Shang Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Chu Slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (絕) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蕝 *ʔsods, *ʔsod
脃 *sʰods
脆 *sʰods
絕 *zod

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *zod) : semantic 糹 (“silk”) + semantic 刀 (“knife”) + phonetic 巴 (卩) — to cut silk threads.

Pronunciation

Note:
  • che̍h/che̍rh/chēr - vernacular;
  • choa̍t - literary.
  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 絕
Mandarin Beijing /t͡ɕyɛ³⁵/
Harbin /t͡ɕyɛ²⁴/
Tianjin /t͡ɕye⁴⁵/
Jinan /t͡ɕyə⁴²/
Qingdao /t͡syə⁴²/
Zhengzhou /t͡syɛ⁴²/
Xi'an /t͡ɕyɛ²⁴/
Xining /t͡ɕyu²⁴/
Yinchuan /t͡ɕye¹³/
Lanzhou /t͡ɕyə⁵³/
Ürümqi /t͡ɕyɤ⁵¹/
Wuhan /t͡ɕie²¹³/
Chengdu /t͡ɕye³¹/
Guiyang /t͡ɕie²¹/
Kunming /t͡ɕiɛ³¹/
Nanjing /t͡syeʔ⁵/
Hefei /t͡ɕyɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡ɕyəʔ⁵⁴/
Pingyao /t͡ɕyʌʔ⁵³/
Hohhot /t͡ɕyaʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /ʑiɪʔ¹/
Suzhou /ziəʔ³/
Hangzhou /d͡ʑiəʔ²/
Wenzhou /jy²¹³/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕyeʔ²¹/
Tunxi /t͡ɕyɛ⁵/
Xiang Changsha /t͡sie²⁴/
Xiangtan /t͡sie²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /t͡ɕʰyɵʔ²/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sʰiet̚⁵/
Taoyuan /t͡sʰiet̚⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡syt̚²/
Nanning /t͡syt̚²²/
Hong Kong /t͡syt̚²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /t͡suat̚⁵/
/t͡seʔ⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /t͡suoʔ⁵/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /t͡syɛ⁴²/
Shantou (Min Nan) /t͡soʔ⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /tuak̚³/
Rime
Character 絕
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 從 (15)
Final (韻) 薛 (82)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 情雪切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /d͡ziuᴇt̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /d͡zʷiɛt̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /d͡zjuæt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /d͡zwiat̚/
Li
Rong		 /d͡ziuɛt̚/
Wang
Li		 /d͡zĭuɛt̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /d͡zʱi̯wɛt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jué
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 絕
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jué
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dzjwet ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[dz]ot/
English cut off

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 絕
Reading # 1/1
No. 7252
Phonetic
component		 絕
Rime
group		 月
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 絕
Old
Chinese		 /*zod/

Definitions

絕

  1. to cut; to sever
  2. to break off
  3. to terminate
  4. (colloquial) cool; awesome
    太絕了 / 太绝了  ―  tài jué le  ―  way cool; awesome
  5. (colloquial) extreme; excessive; too far
  6. most; majority of
  7. definitely; certainly

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

絕

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Usage notes

This character has never been used in modern Japanese. The current form is 絶.

Korean

Hanja

絕 • (jeol) (hangeul 절, revised jeol, McCune–Reischauer chŏl, Yale cel)

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Vietnamese

Han character

絕 (tuyệt)

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