(jué) - to cut off; absolutely; extreme (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
juéTraditional: 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
绝
Examples
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I will absolutely not agree.
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He refused to answer the question.
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This is definitely a good idea.
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This song is absolutely amazing.
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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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