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結

jié, jiē

knot, tie

Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 吉 represents the sound.

Components
糹 meaning component

糹  Meaning component

sī, mì

  

silk

糹 is a component form of 糸.

吉 sound component

吉  Sound component

jí

  

lucky

Evolution

結 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

结 (結) 

jié

knot, tie; join, connect; knot; sturdy; bond; to tie; to bind; to check out (of a hotel)

结 (結) 

jiē

(of a plant) to produce (fruit or seeds); Taiwan pr. [jié]

Most common words with 結
Freq.
Word
Meaning

结果

outcome

结束

termination

结婚

to marry

结构

structure

结合

to combine

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*kˤi[t]

ket

jié

tie (v.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 94.0253% of movies

243rd most common character in movies

236th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Simplified

结

Unicode

U+7D50

Shuowen

“結，締也。从糸，吉聲。”


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