jiéjiē

holiday

Original meaning: 

bamboo joint

Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "bamboo joint". Later used as a measure word for segments and divisions of time.

Components
⺮ meaning component

  Meaning component

zhú

  

bamboo

⺮ is a component form of .

即 sound component

  Sound component

  

promptly

Evolution

節 Bronze script Warring States (475-221 BC)

Bronze script

Warring States (475-221 BC)
節 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
節 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
節 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

jié

knot, node, joint; section; festival; holiday; node; joint; segment; part; to economize; to save; to abridge; moral integrity; classifier for segments, e.g. lessons, train wagons, biblical verses; CL:|[gè]

() 

jiē

see 節骨眼|节骨眼[jiē​gu​yǎn]

Most common words with 節
Freq.
Word
Meaning

节目

program

festival

圣诞节

Christmas time

细节

details

环节

round segment

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tsˤik

tset

jié

joint


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 68.3486% of movies

402nd most common character in movies

514th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

Unicode

U+7BC0

Shuowen

“節,竹約也。从竹,即聲。”


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