Kilo Lingo

(jué) - to cut off; absolutely; extreme (bound morpheme) in Mandarin

jué

Traditional: 绝

Line drawing of 绝
Coloured illustration of 绝
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Translation

to cut off; absolutely; extreme (bound morpheme)

Word origin

A phono-semantic character: the silk radical 纟gives the meaning of cutting a thread right through, hence to sever or absolutely, with 色 supplying the remaining element.

Origin
phono-semantic
Root
纟(silk radical) + 色 (sè, phonetic)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 绝

Examples

I will absolutely not agree.

He refused to answer the question.

This is definitely a good idea.

This song is absolutely amazing.

He will absolutely not give up.

绝 (jué) is a bound morpheme meaning to cut off or absolutely, used in 绝对 (jué duì) "absolutely" and 拒绝 (jù jué) "to refuse".

Appears in 2 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 绝.

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This word is part of lesson 103.