戒

Translingual

Etymology

戈 (“halberd”) + 廾 (“hands”) – to hold up a weapon as warning.

Han character

戒 (radical 62 戈+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 戈廿 (IT), four-corner 5340₀)

1. warn, caution, admonish

Derived characters

• 械

See also

• 賊

References

• KangXi: page 412, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11548
• Dae Jaweon: page 754, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1400, character 5
• Unihan data for U+6212

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Cantonese

Hanzi

戒 (Yale gaai3)

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Japanese

Kanji

戒 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: かい (kai)
• Kun: いましめる (imashimeru), いましめ (imashime)

Compounds

• 戒告
• 教戒
• 訓戒

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Korean

Hanja

戒 (hangeul 계, revised gye, McCune-Reischauer kye, Yale kyey)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

戒 (pinyin jiè (jie4), Wade-Giles chieh⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

戒 (giới)