戒
to guard against; to exhort; to admonish or warn; to give up or stop doing sth; Buddhist monastic discipline; ring (for a finger)
7 strokes
Dict coverage rank #1,288 U+6212
How 戒 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
Two hands 廾 brandishing a spear 戈
How to remember it
take precautions against · Heisig RSH #1868
two hands + fiesta
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 戒 as their sound component
These characters all use 戒 (jiè) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 戒 sound component | jiè | to warn, to admonish; to swear off, to avoid |
| 械 | xiè | weapons; tools; instruments |
Words containing 戒
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 言者无罪,闻者足戒 | yán zhě wú zuì , wén zhě zú jiè | don't blame the speaker, take note of his warning (idiom); an exhortation to speak one's m… |
| 戒治所 | jiè zhì suǒ | drug rehabilitation center |
| 引以为戒 | yǐn yǐ wéi jiè | to take sth as a warning (idiom); to draw a lesson from a case where things turned out bad… |
| 戒毒所 | jiè dú suǒ | drug rehabilitation center |
| 戒子 | jiè zi | (finger) ring |
| 戒心 | jiè xīn | vigilance; wariness |
| 戒行 | jiè xíng | (Buddhism) to adhere strictly to the ethical precepts; asceticism |
| 力戒 | lì jiè | to try everything to avoid; to guard against |
| 开戒 | kāi jiè | to end abstinence; to resume (drinking) after a break; to break (a taboo) |
| 警戒线 | jǐng jiè xiàn | police cordon; alert level |
| 印戒细胞 | yìn jiè xì bāo | (medicine) signet ring cell |
| 传戒 | chuán jiè | (Buddhism) to initiate sb for monkhood or nunhood |
| 戒酒 | jiè jiǔ | to give up drinking; to abstain from drinking |
| 八戒 | Bā jiè | see 豬八戒|猪八戒[Zhu1 Ba1 jie4] |
| 八戒 | bā jiè | the eight precepts (Buddhism) |
| 戒严区 | jiè yán qū | restricted area; zone of application of the martial law |
| 戒命 | jiè mìng | prohibition |
| 戒毒 | jiè dú | to kick a drug habit; to abstain from drugs |
| 以示警戒 | yǐ shì jǐng jiè | to serve as a warning (idiom) |
| 戒指 | jiè zhi | (finger) ring |