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漢字Kanji · in Textiles, Plants & Food

節: node, season

Also: period, occasion, verse, clause, stanza, honor, joint, knuckle, knob, knot, tune, melody

JLPT N113 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met

竹 carries the meaning · 即 gives the sound

13 strokes
  • Bronze · Warring States
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Bronze and small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Three readings, and the words that use each

セツsetsu · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 節句せっくseasonal festival
  • 節電せつでんconservation of electricity
  • 節度せつどmoderation
  • 関節かんせつjoints
  • 季節きせつseason
  • 礼節れいせつdecorum, propriety, politeness
  • 章節しょうせつchapters and sections
  • 使節しせつenvoy, embassy, delegate
  • 調節するちょうせつするregulate, adjust, control
  • 節約するせつやくするconserve, economize

セチsechi · on'yomi

  • お節料理おせちりょうりNew Year's dish

ふしfushi · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 節ふしnode, section, occasion, time

Also read -ぶし, のっと, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

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Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Under the bamboo canopy! This radical brings the practicality and craftsmanship of bamboo to the head of many kanji.”
More in the ⺮ bamboo story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
竹

Also built on bamboo (竹)

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Also read セツ

11 kanji share this on'yomi

Also read セチ

1 kanji shares this on'yomi
In ChineseSimplified 节 · traditional, as in Japanese · jié

Japan keeps the traditional form 節; mainland China simplifies it to 节.

Simplified
节 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
節 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin jié 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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