(jié) - outstanding; used in names (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
jiéTraditional: 杰
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Translation
outstanding; used in names (bound morpheme)
Word origin
Written with 木 (tree) over the fire radical 灬, an ideographic character whose original sense of standing out came to mean outstanding or heroic.
- Origin
- ideographic
- Root
- 木 (tree) over 灬 (fire radical)
Stroke order
杰
Examples
。
Jack is my friend.
，。
He is called Jack, and is from Britain.
。
He is an outstanding scientist.
。
Her performance was outstanding.
杰 (jié) means outstanding or heroic and is now mostly used in personal names, including 杰克 (jié kè), Jack.
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 杰.
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