傑

See also: 杰

傑	U+5091, 傑 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5091

← 傐
[U+5090]

CJK Unified Ideographs

傒 →
[U+5092]

Translingual

Han character

傑 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+10 in Chinese, 人+11 in Japanese, 12 strokes in Chinese, 13 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 人弓手木 (ONQD), four-corner 2529₄, composition ⿰亻桀)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 113, character 9
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 955
Dae Jaweon: page 240, character 15
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 204, character 5
Unihan data for U+5091

Chinese

trad.		傑
simp.		杰^*
alternative forms		桀

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 傑
Small seal script s05669 Transcribed ancient scripts L37891 L26871 L26872 L26873 L26874
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Characters in the same phonetic series (桀) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
桀	*ɡrad
傑	*ɡrad
榤	*ɡrad
嵥	*ɡrad
滐	*ɡrad
搩	*ɡrad
謋	*qʰʷraːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡrad): semantic 亻 (“person”) + phonetic 桀 (OC *ɡrad).

Etymology

Same word as 桀 (OC *ɡrad) (Schuessler, 2007). See there for etymology.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): jié (jie²)

(Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄝˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): git⁶
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): khie̍t / khia̍t

(Hailu, HRS): kied^ˋ
Eastern Min (BUC): giĕk
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): geh⁷
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): kia̍t

(Teochew, Peng'im): giag⁸ / giêg⁸
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁸jiq

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: jié
  - Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄝˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jié
  - Wade–Giles: chieh²
  - Yale: jyé
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jye
  - Palladius: цзе (cze)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɛ³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: git⁶
  - Yale: giht
  - Cantonese Pinyin: git⁹
  - Guangdong Romanization: gid⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kiːt̚²/
Hakka
- (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: khie̍t
  - Hakka Romanization System: kied
  - Hagfa Pinyim: kiad⁶
  - Sinological IPA: /kʰi̯et̚⁵/
- (Southern Sixian, incl. Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: khia̍t
  - Hakka Romanization System: kiad
  - Hagfa Pinyim: kiad⁶
  - Sinological IPA: /kʰi̯at̚⁵/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
  - Hakka Romanization System: kied^ˋ
  - Sinological IPA: /kʰiet²/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: giĕk
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kieʔ⁵/
Puxian Min
- (Putian, Jiangkou, Xianyou, Fengting, Youyang)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: geh⁷
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: ge̍h
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɛʔ⁴/
- (Nanri)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: geh⁷
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ke̞ʔ⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kia̍t
  - Tâi-lô: kia̍t
  - Phofsit Daibuun: kiat
  - IPA (Xiamen): /kiɛt̚⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kiɛt̚²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /kiɛt̚¹²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /kiɛt̚⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /kiɛt̚⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: giag⁸ / giêg⁸
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: kia̍k / kie̍k
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kiak̚⁴/, /kiek̚⁴/

Note:

giag8 - hantou;
giêg8 - Chaozhou.

Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁸jiq
  - MiniDict: jih^入
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁵jjiq
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /d͡ʑiɪʔ¹²/

Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 傑
Mandarin	Beijing	/t͡ɕiɛ³⁵/
	Harbin	/t͡ɕiɛ²⁴/
	Tianjin	/t͡ɕie⁴⁵/
	Jinan	/t͡ɕiə⁴²/
	Qingdao	/t͡ɕiə⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/t͡ɕiɛ²⁴/
	Xi'an	/t͡ɕiɛ²⁴/
	Xining	/t͡ɕi²⁴/
	Yinchuan	/t͡ɕie¹³/
	Lanzhou	/t͡ɕiə⁵³/
	Ürümqi	/t͡ɕiɤ⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/t͡ɕie²¹³/
	Chengdu	/t͡ɕie³¹/
	Guiyang	/t͡ɕie²¹/
	Kunming	/t͡ɕiɛ³¹/
	Nanjing	/t͡ɕieʔ⁵/
	Hefei	/t͡ɕiɐʔ⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/t͡ɕiəʔ⁵⁴/
	Pingyao	/t͡ɕiʌʔ⁵³/
	Hohhot	/t͡ɕiaʔ⁴³/
Wu	Shanghai	/d͡ʑiɪʔ⁵/
	Suzhou	/d͡ʑiəʔ³/
	Hangzhou	/d͡ʑiəʔ²/
	Wenzhou	/d͡ʑi²¹³/
Hui	Shexian	/t͡ɕʰie²²/
Hui	Tunxi	/t͡ɕia⁵/
Xiang	Changsha	/t͡ɕʰie²⁴/
Xiang	Xiangtan	/t͡ɕʰie²⁴/
Gan	Nanchang	/t͡ɕʰiɛʔ⁵/
Hakka	Meixian	/kʰiat̚⁵/
Hakka	Taoyuan	/kʰiet̚⁵⁵/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/kit̚²/
	Nanning	/kit̚²²/
	Hong Kong	/kit̚²/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/kiat̚⁵/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/kieʔ⁵/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/kiɛ²⁴/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/kiak̚⁵/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/kit̚⁵/

Middle Chinese: gjet

Rime
Character	傑
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	群 (30)
Final (韻)	薛 (83)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	渠列切
Baxter	gjet
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɡˠiᴇt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ɡᵚiɛt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ɡiæt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/giat̚/
Li Rong	/ɡjɛt̚/
Wang Li	/ɡĭɛt̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/gi̯ɛt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jié
Expected Cantonese Reflex	git⁶

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*N-[k]<r>at/

(Zhengzhang): /*ɡrad/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	傑
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jié
Middle Chinese	‹ gjet ›
Old Chinese	/*N-[k]<r>at/
English	remarkable; hero
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	傑
Reading #	1/1
No.	6462
Phonetic component	桀
Rime group	月
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*ɡrad/

Definitions

傑

Compounds

人傑 / 人杰 (rénjié)
人傑地靈 / 人杰地灵 (rénjiédìlíng)
俊傑 / 俊杰 (jùnjié)
傑作 / 杰作 (jiézuò)
傑克 / 杰克 (Jiékè)
傑克南瓜燈 / 杰克南瓜灯 (jiékè-nánguādēng)
傑出 / 杰出 (jiéchū)
初唐四傑 / 初唐四杰
四傑 / 四杰
地靈人傑 / 地灵人杰
女中豪傑 / 女中豪杰 (nǚzhōngháojié)
怪傑 / 怪杰 (guàijié)
精心傑作 / 精心杰作
英傑 / 英杰 (yīngjié)
英雄豪傑 / 英雄豪杰 (yīngxióngháojié)
豪傑 / 豪杰 (háojié)

References

“傑”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[2], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) “杰”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 215.

Japanese

Shinjitai	傑
Kyūjitai ^[1]^[2]^[3]	傑󠄂 傑+`󠄂`^? (Adobe-Japan1)
	傑󠄄 傑+`󠄄`^? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

傑

(Jōyō kanji)

outstanding

Readings

Go-on: げち (gechi)
Kan-on: けつ (ketsu, Jōyō)
Kun: すぐれる (sugureru, 傑れる)
Nanori: すぐる (suguru)、たかし (takashi)、たけし (takeshi)

Compounds

傑(けっ)魁(かい) (kekkai)
傑(けっ)黠(かつ) (kekkatsu) (桀(けっ)黠(かつ))
傑(けっ)作(さく) (kessaku)
傑(けっ)士(し) (kesshi)
傑(けっ)出(しゅつ) (kesshutsu)
傑(けっ)俊(しゅん), 傑(けっ)儁(しゅん) (kesshun)
傑(けつ)人(じん) (ketsujin)
傑(けつ)然(ぜん) (ketsuzen)
傑(けっ)僧(そう) (kessō)
傑(けつ)物(ぶつ) (ketsubutsu)
英(えい)傑(けつ) (eiketsu)
快(かい)傑(けつ) (kaiketsu)
怪(かい)傑(けつ) (kaiketsu)
魁(かい)傑(けつ) (kaiketsu)
岸(がん)傑(けつ) (ganketsu)
奇(き)傑(けつ) (kiketsu)
高(こう)傑(けつ) (kōketsu)
豪(ごう)傑(けつ) (gōketsu) (豪(ごう)桀(けつ))
三(さん)傑(けつ) (sanketsu)
四(し)傑(けつ) (shiketsu)
俊(しゅん)傑(けつ) (shunketsu)
女(じょ)傑(けつ) (joketsu)
人(じん)傑(けつ) (jinketsu)
卓(たく)傑(けつ) (takuketsu)
挺(てい)傑(けつ) (teiketsu)
雄(ゆう)傑(けつ) (yūketsu) (雄(ゆう)桀(けつ))

Proper noun

傑(すぐる) • (Suguru)

a male given name

References

^ “傑”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025
^ Haga, Gōtarō (1914) 漢和大辞書 [The Great Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Fourth edition, Tōkyō: Kōbunsha, →DOI, page 190 (paper), page 145 (digital)
^ Shōundō Henshūjo, editor (1927), 新漢和辞典 [The New Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Ōsaka: Shōundō, →DOI, page 143 (paper), page 83 (digital)

Korean

Hanja

傑 (eumhun 호걸 걸 (hogeol geol))

hanja form^? of 걸 (“hero”)
hanja form^? of 걸 (“remarkable, outstanding”)

Vietnamese

Han character

傑: Hán Nôm readings: kiệt

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[1] “傑”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

[2] Haga, Gōtarō (1914) 漢和大辞書 [The Great Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Fourth edition, Tōkyō: Kōbunsha, →DOI, page 190 (paper), page 145 (digital)

[3] Shōundō Henshūjo, editor (1927), 新漢和辞典 [The New Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Ōsaka: Shōundō, →DOI, page 143 (paper), page 83 (digital)

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