Chinese Character Wiki

訣

jué

take leave of

Words 言 said at a parting 夬; 夬 also provides the pronunciation

Components
言 meaning component

言  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

夬 sound,meaning component

夬  Sound Meaning component

guài

  

parted, decisive

Evolution

訣 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
訣 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

诀 (訣) 

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

诀

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

诀

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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