(jié) - to tie, to knot, to conclude in Mandarin
jiéTraditional: 结
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Translation
to tie, to knot, to conclude
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: the silk radical 纟gives the meaning of tying or knotting cord, and 吉 (jí) supplies the sound.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 纟(silk radical) + 吉 (jí, phonetic)
Stroke order
结
Examples
？
When does the meeting end?
。
They got married last year.
。
The result is very good.
绳。
Please tie the rope up.
。
They became good friends.
结 (jié) literally means to tie or knot, and by extension to conclude or finalise. It anchors a productive family of compounds: 结束 (to end), 结婚 (to marry), 结果 (result).
Appears in 3 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 结.
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