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漢字Kanji · in Textiles, Plants & Food

結: tie, bind

Also: contract, join, organize, do up hair, fasten

JLPT N112 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met

糸 carries the meaning · 吉 gives the sound

12 strokes

Three readings, and the words that use each

ケツketsu · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 結論けつろんconclusion
  • 結局けっきょくafter all
  • 結果けっかresult
  • 結核けっかくtuberculosis
  • 結構なけっこうなsplendid, good
  • 結婚するけっこんするmarry
  • 結合するけつごうするcombine [v.i.]
  • 完結するかんけつするbe completed

むすぶmusubu · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 結ぶむすぶtie

ゆうyuu · kun'yomi

  • 結うゆうdo up (e.g. hair)

Also read ケチ, ゆわえる, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)糸 (meaning) + 吉 (sound)

Source: Wiktionary, 結 (rev. 91747164), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Thread (糸) + auspicious/good (吉). To "tie" together "good" intentions or literal threads to form a lasting "knot" or a successful conclusion to an event.”
From the 糸 thread story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
糸

Also built on thread (糸)

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吉

Also built on good luck (吉)

The 吉 family reads キチ (kichi); 結 is read ケツ、ケチ.

Also read ケツ

6 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
結 tie · 吉
vs給 salary · 合
結 has 吉 where 給 has 合.
In ChineseSimplified 结 · traditional, as in Japanese · jié

Japan keeps the traditional form 結; mainland China simplifies it to 结.

Simplified
结 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
結 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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