截 (jié): to cut off (a length), to stop, to intercept
截 (jié) is a Chinese character meaning “to cut off (a length).” Classified as HSK Level 6 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 十 (structural), 隹 (structural) and 戈 (structural). It ranks #1542 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 截 a bird 隹 cut off from its nest 十 by a weapon 戈. Its radical form 戈 (halberd) appears in many related characters such as 我 (wǒ, I), 成 (chéng, to succeed), 或 (huò, maybe).
Definitions
- to cut off (a length)
- to stop
- to intercept
Etymology & Origin
ideographicA bird 隹 cut off from its nest 十 by a weapon 戈
Decomposition: ⿻⿱十隹戈 (layout: overlay)
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 截
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 拦截verb | lán jié | to intercept |
| 截然不同phrase | jié rán bù tóng | entirely different |
| 截获verb | jié huò | to intercept |
| 直截了当phrase | zhí jié liǎo dàng | direct and plainspoken (idiom) |
| 截肢verb | jié zhī | amputation (medicine) |
| 截取verb | jié qǔ | to cut off a section of sth |
| 截断verb | jié duàn | to break or cut in two |
| 阻截 | zǔ jié | to stop |
| 半截noun | bàn jié | half (of sth) |
| 截然adverb | jié rán | sharply |
| 截瘫verb | jié tān | paraplegia |
| 横截面noun | héng jié miàn | cross-section |
| 截击verb | jié jī | to intercept (military) |
| 斩钉截铁phrase | zhǎn dīng jié tiě | (lit.) to chop the nail and slice the iron (idiom) |
| 堵截verb | dǔ jié | to intercept |
截 appears in 43 compound words: 60 as the first character, 19 as the last, and 21 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 截 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (6)
take from the long to supplement the short (idiom); to offset each other's deficiencies; to complement each other
take from the long to supplement the short (idiom); to offset each other's deficiencies; to complement each other
Example Sentences
请把这篇文章截取一部分作为引用。
Qǐng bǎ zhè piān wénzhāng jiéqǔ yī bùfen zuòwéi yǐnyòng.
Please excerpt a portion of this article as a citation.
以色列股市上涨;截至收盘特拉维夫TA35指数上涨0.27%
yǐ sè liè gǔ shì shàng zhǎng jié zhì shōu pán tè lā wéi fū zhǐ shǔ shàng zhǎng .
Israeli stocks rose; the Tel Aviv TA35 index gained 0.27% at the close.
家姐好心幫手「攔截成績表」反害慘弟弟 網民一面倒:故意的吧...
jiā jiě hǎo xīn 幫 shǒu 攔 jié chéng 績 biǎo fǎn hài 慘 dì dì 網 mín yī miàn dǎo gù yì de ba . . .
Big Sister's Kind Gesture of "Intercepting the Report Card" Backfires on Little Brother Netizens Unanimously Say: This Was Definitely on Purpose...
日本擬強化攔截無人機防空網
rì běn 擬 強 huà 攔 jié 無 rén 機 fáng kōng 網
Japan plans to strengthen its air defense network to intercept drones.
回港潮|初六截至晚上9時102萬人次出入境 43萬港人...
huí gǎng cháo chū liù jié zhì wǎn shàng 時 萬 rén cì chū rù jìng 萬 gǎng rén . . .
Returning to Hong Kong | 1.02 million people entered and left Hong Kong on the 6th day of the Lunar New Year up to 9:00 p.m. 430,000 Hong Kong people...
回港潮|初六截至下午4時62.2萬人次出入境 20萬人...
huí gǎng cháo chū liù jié zhì xià wǔ 時 . 萬 rén cì chū rù jìng 萬 rén . . .
Returning to Hong Kong|The 6th day of the Lunar New Year as of 4:00 pm 622,000 people crossed the border and 200,000...
能够直截了当地表达自己想法的人很直爽。
Nénggòu zhíjié-liǎodàng de biǎodá zìjǐ xiǎngfǎ de rén hěn zhíshuǎng.
People who can express their thoughts in a clear-cut way are very straightforward.
日语和汉语的汉字发音截然不同，对吗？
Rìyǔ hé Hànyǔ de hànzì fāyīn jiéránbùtóng, duì ma?
The Japanese and Chinese pronunciation for kanji is very different, isn't it?
玛丽直截了当地拒绝了汤姆的请求。
Mǎlì zhíjiéliǎodàng de jùjué le Tāngmǔ de qǐngqiú.
Mary bluntly rejected Tom's request.
他举高了手来截的士。
Tā jǔ gāo le shǒu lái jié dīshì.
He raised his hand in order that the taxi might stop.
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