漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
戒: commandment
JLPT N17 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
戈 carries the meaning · 廾 is drawn in
7 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Bronze · Spring and Autumn Today
Oracle bone and bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
カイkai · on'yomi · in compounds
- 警戒けいかいvigilance; caution; alertness
- 懲戒ちょうかいdiscipline; punishment; reprimand
- 戒告かいこくadmonition; warning; caution
- 戒厳令かいげんれい
いましめるimashimeru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 戒めいましめcaution; admonition; warning
- 戒めるいましめるto warn against; to caution against
Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Ideogrammic compound (會意)戈 halberd + 廾 hands
To hold up a weapon as warning.
Source: Wiktionary, 戒 (rev. 92200505), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Halberd (戈) + two hands (廾). Two hands gripping a weapon, ready and on guard—to be cautious or to warn, as in 警戒 (vigilance).”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side戒 commandment · 廾
vs成 turn into · 𠂊In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · jiè
Same form: 戒 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 戒 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 戒 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin jiè most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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