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截

截

Translingual

Han character

截 (radical 62 戈+10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 十戈人土 (JIOG), four-corner 43250, composition ⿹𢦏隹)

References

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 截

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (截) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
巀 *zaːd, *zeːd
截 *zeːd
蠽 *ʔsed

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *zeːd) : semantic 隹 + phonetic 𢦔.

Pronunciation

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 截
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jié
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dzet ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[dz]ˤet/
English cut, trim

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 截
Reading # 1/1
No. 6471
Phonetic
component		 截
Rime
group		 月
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 𢧵
Old
Chinese		 /*zeːd/
Notes 說文作從戈雀聲，疑會意

Definitions

截

  1. cut off, stop, obstruct, intersect

Japanese

Kanji

截

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. to cut, to sever

Readings

Etymology 1

From Middle Chinese 截 ‎(*dzhet). Compare modern Cantonese 截 ‎(zit6).

Pronunciation

Affix

截 ‎(hiragana せつ, romaji setsu)

  1. section
  2. cut
  3. sever
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Probably originally a misreading based on this character's visual and semantic similarity to 裁, commonly read as sai.

Pronunciation

Affix

截 ‎(hiragana さい, romaji sai)

  1. section
  2. cut
  3. sever
Derived terms

Korean

Hanja

截 • ‎(jeol) (hangeul 절, revised jeol, McCune-Reischauer chŏl, Yale cel)

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Vietnamese

Han character

截 (tiệt, sịt, tét, tĩu)

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