(jù) - refuse, reject in Mandarin
jùTraditional: 拒
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Translation
refuse, reject
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: the hand radical 扌gives the meaning of fending off or holding back, hence to refuse, and 巨 (jù) supplies the sound.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 扌(hand radical) + 巨 (jù, phonetic)
Stroke order
拒
Examples
。
He refused my request.
？
Why are you refusing?
。
Do not reject this opportunity.
。
He refuses to answer the questions.
。
She refused to accept the gift.
拒 (jù) means refuse or reject, and combines with 绝 in 拒绝 (jù jué).
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 拒.
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