漢字Kanji · in Textiles, Plants & Food
絶: discontinue, sever
Also: cut off, abstain, interrupt, suppress, be beyond, without match, peerless, unparalleled
JLPT N312 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met
糸 carries the meaning · 色 is drawn in
12 strokes
Four readings, and the words that use each
ゼツzetsu · on'yomi · in compounds
- 絶版ぜっぱんout of print
- 絶対ぜったいabsolute, unconditional
- 絶好ぜっこうbest, perfect
- 絶妙なぜつみょうなmiraculous
- 絶交するぜっこうするbreak off friendship
- 絶望するぜつぼうするdespair, give up hope]
- 絶滅するぜつめつするexterminate, annihilate
- 中絶するちゅうぜつするinterrupt, abort
- 気絶するきぜつするfaint [v.i.]
たえるtaeru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 絶えるたえるgo extinct, cease, expire [v.i.]
たやすtayasu · kun'yomi
- 絶やすたやすexterminate, eradicate [v.t.]
たつtatsu · kun'yomi
- 絶つたつsever, cut [v.t.]
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成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Ideogrammic compound (會意)刀 knife + 幺 silk
Originally ideogrammic compound (會意): 刀 (“knife”) + 幺 (“silk”) or ideogrammic compound (會意): 刀 (“knife”) + 𢆶 (“silk”) – to cut silk threads.
Source: Wiktionary, 絕 (rev. 92999591), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Fine thread (糸) + color (色). It originally meant to "cut" or "finish" a piece of "colored" thread, eventually meaning something "unique" that is "beyond" comparison.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Also read ゼツ
1 kanji shares this on'yomiIn ChineseSimplified 绝 · traditional 絕 · jué
Three different forms: Japanese 絶, simplified 绝, traditional 絕.
- Simplified
- 绝 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 絕 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin jué 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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