訣

See also: 诀

訣 U+8A23, 訣 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8A23 ← 訢 [U+8A22] CJK Unified Ideographs 訤 → [U+8A24]

Translingual

Han character

訣 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+4, 11 strokes, cangjie input 卜口木大 (YRDK), four-corner 0563₀, composition ⿰訁夬)

Derived characters

• 𥊜

References

• KangXi: page 1150, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35272
• Dae Jaweon: page 1617, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3951, character 5
• Unihan data for U+8A23

Chinese

trad.		訣
simp.		诀
alternative forms		決／决

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (夬) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
袂	*mɡʷeds
夬	*kʷraːds
快	*kʰʷraːds
駃	*kʰʷraːds, *kʷeːd
筷	*kʰʷraːds
炔	*kʷeːds
觖	*kʰʷeds, *kʷeːd
缺	*kʰʷed, *kʰʷeːd
蒛	*kʰʷed
吷	*qʰʷed
妜	*qʷed, *qʷeːd
決	*kʷeːd, *qʰʷeːd
訣	*kʷeːd
抉	*kʷeːd, *qʷeːd
玦	*kʷeːd
芵	*kʷeːd
赽	*kʷeːd
鴂	*kʷeːd
鈌	*kʷeːd
决	*kʷeːd
疦	*kʷeːd, *qʰʷeːd
蚗	*kʷeːd
趹	*kʷeːd

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jué (jue²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄩㄝˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kyut³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): kiet / kiat
• Min Nan (POJ): koat

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jué
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄩㄝˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jyué
    • Wade–Giles: chüeh²
    • Yale: jywé
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyue
    • Palladius: цзюэ (czjue)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕɥɛ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: kyut³
    • Yale: kyut
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kyt⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: küd³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰyːt̚³/
• Hakka
  • (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kiet
    • Hakka Romanization System: gied`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: giad<sup>5</sup>
    • Sinological IPA: /ki̯et̚²/
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kiat
    • Hakka Romanization System: giad`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: giad⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /ki̯at̚²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: koat
    • Tâi-lô: kuat
    • Phofsit Daibuun: koad
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kuat̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kuat̚⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kuat̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kuat̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kuat̚³²/

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• Middle Chinese: /kwet̚/

Rime
Character	訣
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	先 (88)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	古穴切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kwet̚/
Pan Wuyun	/kʷet̚/
Shao Rongfen	/kuɛt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kwɛt̚/
Li Rong	/kuet̚/
Wang Li	/kiwet̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/kiwet̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jue
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gyut3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[k]ʷˤet/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʷeːd/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	訣
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jué
Middle Chinese	‹ kwet ›
Old Chinese	/*[k]ʷˁet/
English	farewell words
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	訣
Reading #	1/1
No.	4417
Phonetic component	夬
Rime group	月
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	玦
Old Chinese	/*kʷeːd/

Definitions

訣

1. to take leave of; to bid farewell
2. knack; secret; trick of the trade
3. mnemonic chant; rhyme for remembering something
4. (obsolete) to bid farewell to a dead person

Compounds

• 丹訣／丹诀
• 五字訣／五字诀
• 口訣／口诀 (kǒujué)
• 妙訣／妙诀
• 捏訣／捏诀

• 掐訣／掐诀
• 歌訣／歌诀
• 永訣／永诀 (yǒngjué)
• 祕訣／秘诀

• 脈訣／脉诀
• 要訣／要诀 (yàojué)
• 訣別／诀别 (juébié)
• 訣竅／诀窍 (juéqiào)

Japanese

Kanji

訣

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. separation
2. part
3. secret

Readings

• Go-on: けち (kechi)
• Kan-on: けつ (ketsu)
• On: けい (kei)
• Kun: わかれる (wakareru, 訣れる)
• Nanori: とし (toshi)

Korean

Hanja

訣 • (gyeol) (hangeul 결, revised gyeol, McCune–Reischauer kyŏl, Yale kyel)

1. take leave of
2. bid farewell

Compounds

• 口訣 (구결, gugyeol)

Vietnamese

Han character

訣: Hán Việt readings: quyết

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