绝 (jué): absolutely, to cut off
绝 (jué) is a Chinese character meaning “absolutely, to cut off.” Classified as HSK Level 4 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 纟 (semantic) and 色 (phonetic). It ranks #562 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 绝 thread. Its radical form 纟 (silk) appears in many related characters such as 系 (xì, to connect), 累 (lèi, tired), 绍 (shào, to continue).
Definitions
- absolutely, to cut off
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 绝
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning | HSK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 绝对adjective/adverb | jué duì | absolute | 5 |
| 拒绝verb | jù jué | to refuse | 4 |
| 绝望verb | jué wàng | to despair | 6 |
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 绝不adverb | jué bù | in no way |
| 绝妙adjective | jué miào | exquisite |
| 灭绝verb | miè jué | to become extinct |
| 断绝verb | duàn jué | to sever |
| 绝大多数 | jué dà duō shù | the vast majority |
| 绝地noun | jué dì | danger spot |
| 绝非verb | jué fēi | absolutely not |
| 绝密adjective | jué mì | top secret |
| 与世隔绝phrase | yǔ shì gé jué | to be cut off from the rest of the world (idiom) |
| 绝境noun | jué jìng | desperate straits |
| 滔滔不绝phrase | tāo tāo bù jué | (idiom) to produce a torrent of words |
| 绝大部分 | jué dà bù fen | overwhelming majority |
| 绝症noun | jué zhèng | incurable disease |
| 隔绝verb | gé jué | to cut off |
| 回绝verb | huí jué | to rebuff |
绝 appears in 100 compound words: 64 as the first character, 32 as the last, and 4 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 绝 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (33)
to run out of ammunition and food supply; to be in a desperate situation
to run out of ammunition as reinforcements are also not forthcoming; to be in a desperate situation
persisting despite trials and tribulations (idiom); conspicuous determination
to get saved at a critical moment; to survive a crisis; to be unexpectedly rescued from a desperate situation
persisting despite trials and tribulations (idiom); conspicuous determination
Showing 12 of 33 idioms containing 绝.
Example Sentences
绝对不能违反公司的规定，否则会受到处分。
Juéduì bùnéng wéifǎn gōngsī de guīdìng, fǒuzé huì shòudào chǔfèn.
Absolutely cannot violate company regulations; otherwise, you will be disciplined.
冬奥/苦等46年 美国男子冰球延长赛绝杀加拿大夺金
dōng ào kǔ děng 4 6 nián měi guó nán zǐ bīng qiú yán cháng sài jué shā jiā ná dà duó jīn
Winter Olympics/46 years of waiting, the U.S. men's ice hockey playoff defeated Canada to win gold
夜王—杨偲泳性感镜头疑遭刻意删减 公开绝密福利照凭歌寄意回应
yè wáng — yáng 偲 yǒng xìng gǎn jìng tóu yí zāo kè yì shān jiǎn gōng kāi jué mì fú lì zhào píng gē jì yì huí yīng
Night King - Yang Siyong's sexy footage is suspected of being deliberately deleted, and the public top-secret welfare photos respond with songs
...迫堕胎样样来 联合国痛批东南亚诈骗园区惨绝人寰
. . . pò duò tāi yàng yàng lái lián gě guó tòng pī dōng nán yà zhà piàn yuán qū cǎn jué rén 寰
... Forced abortion is everything, and the United Nations criticizes the Southeast Asian fraud park as horrible
马到平安|拒绝 “人从众” 伤害,春节防踩踏 指南..
mǎ dào píng ān jù jué rén cóng zhòng shāng hài , chūn jié fáng cǎi tà zhǐ nán . .
Horse to Safety|Refuse the harm of "people following the crowd", Spring Festival anti-stampede guide:
米兰冬奥|选手触壶作弊,场上飚起脏话,拒绝科技辅助..
mǐ lán dōng ào xuǎn shǒu chù hú zuò bì , chǎng shǎng 飚 qǐ zāng huà , jù jué kē jì fǔ zhù . .
Milan Winter Olympics | Athletes touch the pot cheating, the field Biao up swearing, refused to tech-assisted...
你拒绝执行，是不是？
Nǐ jùjué zhíxíng, shìbùshì?
You refused to do that, didn't you?
什么样的人会将种族灭绝者，称之为“英雄”？
Shénmeyàng de rén huì jiāng zhǒngzúmièjué zhě, chēngzhīwéi "yīngxióng "?
What kind of person looks up to a genocidal killer and calls him a hero?
总统拒绝回答那个问题。
Zǒngtǒng jùjué huídá nèige wèntí.
The President refused to answer the question.
她拒绝了我的资助。
Tā jùjué le wǒ de zīzhù.
She turned down the subsidy that I offered.
Character Family
Semantic Family — Characters sharing the 纟 (thread) component
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