jiè

warn

Words  of warning  also provides the pronunciation

Components
言 meaning component

  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

戒 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

jiè

  

warn

Evolution

誡 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
誡 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
誡 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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jiè

warn, admonish; warning; commandment; to prohibit

Most common words with 誡
Freq.
Word
Meaning

告诫

to warn

commandment

训诫

to reprimand

劝诫

to exhort

谆谆告诫

to admonish

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*kˤrək-s

keajH

jiè

warn


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.9702% of movies

3021st most common character in movies

2770th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

Unicode

U+8AA1

Shuowen

“誡,敕也。从言,戒聲。”


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