截
to cut off (a length); to stop; to intercept; section; chunk; length
14 strokes
Dict coverage rank #1,625 U+622A
How 截 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A bird 隹 cut off from its nest 十 by a weapon 戈
How to remember it
lop off · Heisig RSH #1767
Thanksgiving + turkey
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words containing 截
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 截然不同 | jié rán bù tóng | entirely different; different as black and white |
| 直截了当 | zhí jié liǎo dàng | direct and plainspoken (idiom); blunt; straightforward |
| 截长补短 | jié cháng bǔ duǎn | take from the long to supplement the short (idiom); to offset each other's deficiencies; t… |
| 横截面 | héng jié miàn | cross-section |
| 横截线 | héng jié xiàn | transversal line |
| 截面 | jié miàn | section; cross-section |
| 凉了半截 | liáng le bàn jié | felt a chill (in one's heart); (one's heart) sank |
| 截线 | jié xiàn | intersecting line |
| 截止日 | jié zhǐ rì | deadline; cut-off date |
| 截然 | jié rán | sharply; distinctly; radically |
| 截拳道 | jié quán dào | Jeet Kun Do or Way of the Intercepting Fist, a fusion of Eastern and Western martial arts … |
| 截尾 | jié wěi | to dock; to trim (esp. the tail of an animal) |
| 半截 | bàn jié | half (of sth); halfway through |
| 截图 | jié tú | (computing) screenshot; to take a screenshot |
| 截止期限 | jié zhǐ qī xiàn | deadline |
| 截塔 | jié tǎ | zeta (Greek letter Ζζ) |
| 直截 | zhí jié | straightforward |
| 截止到 | jié zhǐ dào | (before an expression indicating a point of time) up to (that point); as of (that time) |
| 截断 | jié duàn | to break or cut in two; to sever; to cut off; (fig.) to cut off (a conversation, a flow et… |
| 截取 | jié qǔ | to cut off a section of sth |