(jiě) - to untie, to solve; to understand in Mandarin
jiěTraditional: 解
Translation
to untie, to solve; to understand
Word origin
An ideographic character showing a knife 刀 separating the horn 角 from an ox 牛, picturing the act of cutting apart, hence to untie, to separate and to solve.
- Origin
- ideographic
- Root
- 角 (horn) + 刀 (knife) + 牛 (ox)
Stroke order
解
Examples
。
I understand how you feel.
。
Could you please explain?
。
We need to solve this problem.
绳。
Please untie this rope.
。
I cannot solve this problem.
解 (jiě) means to untie or to solve, and extends to to understand. It anchors a cluster of cognition and problem-solving verbs: 了解 (to understand, to be informed), 理解 (to comprehend), 解释 (to explain), and 解决 (to solve).
Appears in 4 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 解.
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