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U+6F54, 潔
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6F54

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 85, +12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 水手竹火 (EQHF), four-corner 37193, composition )

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 648, character 40
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18231
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1058, character 23
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1743, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+6F54

Chinese

trad.
simp. *

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *keːd) : semantic (water) + phonetic (OC *keːd, *ɡeːd).

Pronunciation


Note:
  • giêg4 - Chaozhou;
  • giag4 - Shantou.

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /t͡ɕiɛ³⁵/
Harbin /t͡ɕiɛ²⁴/
Tianjin /t͡ɕie⁴⁵/
Jinan /t͡ɕiə⁴²/
Qingdao /t͡ɕiə⁴²/
Zhengzhou /t͡ɕiɛ⁴²/
Xi'an /t͡ɕiɛ²⁴/
Xining /t͡ɕi²⁴/
Yinchuan /t͡ɕie¹³/
Lanzhou /t͡ɕiə¹³/
Ürümqi /t͡ɕiɤ⁵¹/
Wuhan /t͡ɕie²¹³/
Chengdu /t͡ɕie³¹/
Guiyang /t͡ɕie²¹/
Kunming /t͡ɕiɛ³¹/
Nanjing /t͡ɕieʔ⁵/
Hefei /t͡ɕiɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡ɕiəʔ²/
Pingyao /t͡ɕiʌʔ¹³/
Hohhot /t͡ɕiaʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /t͡ɕiɪʔ⁵/
Suzhou /t͡ɕiəʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /t͡ɕiəʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /t͡ɕi²¹³/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕieʔ²¹/
Tunxi /t͡ɕia⁵/
Xiang Changsha /t͡ɕie²⁴/
Xiangtan /t͡ɕie²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /t͡ɕiɛʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /kiat̚¹/
Taoyuan
Cantonese Guangzhou /kit̚³/
Nanning /kit̚³³/
Hong Kong /kit̚³/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /kiat̚³²/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /kaiʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /kiɛ²⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /kiak̚²/
Haikou (Hainanese) /kit̚⁵/
/ke⁵⁵/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (87)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () IV
Fanqie
Baxter ket
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ket̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/ket̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/kɛt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kɛt̚/
Li
Rong
/ket̚/
Wang
Li
/kiet̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kiet̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jie
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
git3
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
jié
Middle
Chinese
‹ ket ›
Old
Chinese
/*ˁet/
English pure, purify

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

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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
Reading # 1/1
No. 6507
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*keːd/

Definitions

  1. clean; pure; innocent
  2. to clean; to purify
  3. honest; upright

Compounds

Japanese

Shinjitai
Kyūjitai
[1]

潔󠄅
+&#xE0105;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

  • Go-on: けち (kechi)
  • Kan-on: けつ (ketsu, Jōyō)
  • Kun: いさぎよい (isagiyoi, 潔い, Jōyō)

Proper noun

(きよし) (Kiyoshi

  1. a male given name

References

  1. ^ ”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2024

Korean

Hanja

(eumhun 깨끗할 (kkaekkeuthal gyeol))

  1. hanja form? of (clean; pure)

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: khiết

  1. clean; pure; innocent

References

  • Nom Foundation
  • Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
  • Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
  • Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm, NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999