爵 (jué): ancient bronze wine holder with 3 legs and loop handle, nobility
爵 (jué) is a Chinese character meaning “ancient bronze wine holder with 3 legs and loop handle.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 爫 (structural), 罒 (structural), 良 (structural) and 寸 (structural). It ranks #1901 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 爵 a hand 寸 holding a goblet 良 of wine 罒. Its radical form 爪 (claw) appears in many related characters such as 爬 (pá, to crawl), 爪 (zhǎo, foot of a bird or animal).
Definitions
- ancient bronze wine holder with 3 legs and loop handle
- nobility
Etymology & Origin
ideographicA hand 寸 holding a goblet 良 of wine 罒
Decomposition: ⿱爫⿱罒⿰良寸 (layout: top-bottom)
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 爵士noun | jué shì | knight |
| 公爵noun | gōng jué | duke |
| 伯爵noun | bó jué | earl |
| 爵士舞noun | jué shì wǔ | jazz (loanword) |
| 勋爵noun | xūn jué | Lord (UK hereditary nobility) |
| 爵士乐noun | jué shì yuè | jazz (loanword) |
| 男爵noun | nán jué | baron |
| 侯爵noun | hóu jué | marquis |
| 爵位noun | jué wèi | order of feudal nobility, namely: Duke 公, Marquis 侯, Count 伯, Viscount 子, Baron 男 |
| 子爵noun | zǐ jué | viscount |
| 封爵verb | fēng jué | to confer a title |
| 自由爵士乐 | zì yóu jué shì yuè | free jazz (music genre) |
| 公爵夫人 | gōng jué fū rén | duchess |
| 五等爵位proper-noun | wǔ děng jué wèi | five orders of feudal nobility, namely: Duke 公, Marquis 侯, Count 伯, Viscount 子, Baron 男 |
| 加官进爵phrase | jiā guān jìn jué | promotion to the nobility (idiom) |
爵 appears in 29 compound words: 24 as the first character, 59 as the last, and 17 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 爵 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (6)
Example Sentences
爵字在日常生活中使用频率较低。
jué zì zài rì cháng shēng huó zhōng shǐ yòng pín lǜ jiào dī .
The character "爵" is not commonly used in everyday life.
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融合爵士是摇滚乐与爵士乐的融合。
Rónghé juéshì shì yáogǔnyuè yǔ juéshìyuè de rónghé.
Jazz fusion is a combination of rock and jazz.
汤姆是波士顿的爵士歌手。
Tāngmǔ shì Bōshìdùn de juéshì gēshǒu.
Tom is a jazz singer in Boston.
您也喜欢爵士乐吗？
Nín yě xǐhuan juéshìyuè ma?
Do you also like jazz?
日本的年轻人喜爱摇滚乐和爵士乐。
Rìběn de niánqīngrén xǐ'ài yáogǔnyuè hé juéshìyuè.
Japanese young people like rock and jazz music.
Character Family
爪 Radical Family — Characters sharing the claw radical
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