Wiktionary

潔

See also: 洁
潔 U+6F54, 潔
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6F54
← 潓
[U+6F53] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 潕 →
[U+6F55]

Translingual

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Han character

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潔 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 水手竹火 (EQHF), four-corner 37193, composition ⿰氵絜)

References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 648, character 40
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18231
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1058, character 23
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1743, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+6F54

Chinese

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trad. 潔
simp. 洁*

Glyph origin

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Characters in the same phonetic series (丯) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
夆 *pʰoŋ, *boŋ, *ɡaːds
丯 *kreːds
瘛 *kʰjeds, *ɡeːds, *kʰjed
觢 *ɡjeds
契 *kʰeːds, *kʰeːd, *kʰeːd, *kʰɯd
栔 *kʰeːds
禊 *ɡeːds
稧 *ɡeːds
楔 *kreːd, *sqʰeːd
葜 *kʰreːd
猰 *qreːd, *kraːd, *kʰeːd
窫 *qreːd
揳 *sqʰeːd
偰 *sqʰeːd
潔 *keːd
絜 *keːd, *ɡeːd
鍥 *keːd, *kʰeːd
挈 *kʰeːd
蛪 *kʰeːd
齧 *ŋeːd
褉 *qʰeːd
喫 *ŋ̊ʰeːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *keːd) : semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 絜 (OC *keːd, *ɡeːd).

Pronunciation

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Note:
  • giêg4 - Chaozhou;
  • giag4 - Shantou.
  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 潔
Mandarin Beijing /t͡ɕiɛ³⁵/
Harbin /t͡ɕiɛ²⁴/
Tianjin /t͡ɕie⁴⁵/
Jinan /t͡ɕiə⁴²/
Qingdao /t͡ɕiə⁴²/
Zhengzhou /t͡ɕiɛ⁴²/
Xi'an /t͡ɕiɛ²⁴/
Xining /t͡ɕi²⁴/
Yinchuan /t͡ɕie¹³/
Lanzhou /t͡ɕiə¹³/
Ürümqi /t͡ɕiɤ⁵¹/
Wuhan /t͡ɕie²¹³/
Chengdu /t͡ɕie³¹/
Guiyang /t͡ɕie²¹/
Kunming /t͡ɕiɛ³¹/
Nanjing /t͡ɕieʔ⁵/
Hefei /t͡ɕiɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡ɕiəʔ²/
Pingyao /t͡ɕiʌʔ¹³/
Hohhot /t͡ɕiaʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /t͡ɕiɪʔ⁵/
Suzhou /t͡ɕiəʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /t͡ɕiəʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /t͡ɕi²¹³/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕieʔ²¹/
Tunxi /t͡ɕia⁵/
Xiang Changsha /t͡ɕie²⁴/
Xiangtan /t͡ɕie²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /t͡ɕiɛʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /kiat̚¹/
Taoyuan
Cantonese Guangzhou /kit̚³/
Nanning /kit̚³³/
Hong Kong /kit̚³/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /kiat̚³²/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /kaiʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /kiɛ²⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /kiak̚²/
Haikou (Hainanese) /kit̚⁵/
/ke⁵⁵/
Rime
Character 潔
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 屑 (87)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 古屑切
Baxter ket
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ket̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ket̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kɛt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kɛt̚/
Li
Rong 		/ket̚/
Wang
Li 		/kiet̚/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/kiet̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		jie
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		git3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 潔
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		jié
Middle
Chinese 		‹ ket ›
Old
Chinese 		/*[k]ˁet/
English pure, purify

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 潔
Reading # 1/1
No. 6507
Phonetic
component 		丯
Rime
group 		月
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		結
Old
Chinese 		/*keːd/

Definitions

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潔

  1. clean; pure; innocent
  2. to clean; to purify
  3. honest; upright

Compounds

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Japanese

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Shinjitai 潔
Kyūjitai
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潔󠄅
潔+&#xE0105;?
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Kanji

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潔

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

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Proper noun

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潔(きよし) • (Kiyoshi) 

  1. a male given name

References

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  1. ^ “潔”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2024

Korean

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Hanja

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潔 (eumhun 깨끗할 결 (kkaekkeuthal gyeol))

  1. hanja form? of 결 (“clean; pure”)

Compounds

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Vietnamese

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Han character

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潔: Hán Nôm readings: khiết

  1. clean; pure; innocent

References

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  • Nom Foundation
  • Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
  • Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
  • Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm, NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
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