潔

See also: 洁

潔	U+6F54, 潔 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6F54

← 潓
[U+6F53]

CJK Unified Ideographs

潕 →
[U+6F55]

Translingual

Han character

潔 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 水手竹火 (EQHF), four-corner 3719₃, composition ⿰氵絜)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 648, character 40
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18231
Dae Jaweon: page 1058, character 23
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1743, character 1
Unihan data for U+6F54

Chinese

trad.		潔
simp.		洁^*

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
夆	pʰoŋ, boŋ, *ɡaːds
丯	*kreːds
瘛	kʰjeds, ɡeːds, *kʰjed
觢	*ɡjeds
契	kʰeːds, kʰeːd, kʰeːd, kʰɯd
栔	*kʰeːds
禊	*ɡeːds
稧	*ɡeːds
楔	kreːd, sqʰeːd
葜	*kʰreːd
猰	qreːd, kraːd, *kʰeːd
窫	*qreːd
揳	*sqʰeːd
偰	*sqʰeːd
潔	*keːd
絜	keːd, ɡeːd
鍥	keːd, kʰeːd
挈	*kʰeːd
蛪	*kʰeːd
齧	*ŋeːd
褉	*qʰeːd
喫	*ŋ̊ʰeːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *keːd): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 絜 (OC *keːd, *ɡeːd).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): jié (jie²)

(Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄝˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): git³
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): kiet / kiat

(Meixian, Guangdong): giad⁵
Eastern Min (BUC): gáik
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): kiat

(Teochew, Peng'im): giêg⁴ / giag⁴
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁷ciq

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: git³
  - Yale: git
  - Cantonese Pinyin: git⁸
  - Guangdong Romanization: gid³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kiːt̚³/
Hakka
- (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kiet
  - Hakka Romanization System: gied^ˋ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: giad⁵
  - Sinological IPA: /ki̯et̚²/
- (Southern Sixian, incl. Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kiat
  - Hakka Romanization System: giad^ˋ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: giad⁵
  - Sinological IPA: /ki̯at̚²/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: giad⁵
  - Sinological IPA: /kiat̚¹/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: gáik
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kaiʔ²⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kiat
  - Tâi-lô: kiat
  - Phofsit Daibuun: kiad
  - IPA (Xiamen): /kiɛt̚³²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kiɛt̚⁵/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /kiɛt̚³²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /kiɛt̚³²/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /kiɛt̚³²/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: giêg⁴ / giag⁴
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: kiek / kiak
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kiek̚²/, /kiak̚²/

Note:

giêg4 - Chaozhou;
giag4 - Shantou.

Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁷ciq
  - MiniDict: cih^入
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁴jiq
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡ɕiɪʔ⁵⁵/

Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 潔
Mandarin	Beijing	/t͡ɕiɛ³⁵/
	Harbin	/t͡ɕiɛ²⁴/
	Tianjin	/t͡ɕie⁴⁵/
	Jinan	/t͡ɕiə⁴²/
	Qingdao	/t͡ɕiə⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/t͡ɕiɛ⁴²/
	Xi'an	/t͡ɕiɛ²⁴/
	Xining	/t͡ɕi²⁴/
	Yinchuan	/t͡ɕie¹³/
	Lanzhou	/t͡ɕiə¹³/
	Ürümqi	/t͡ɕiɤ⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/t͡ɕie²¹³/
	Chengdu	/t͡ɕie³¹/
	Guiyang	/t͡ɕie²¹/
	Kunming	/t͡ɕiɛ³¹/
	Nanjing	/t͡ɕieʔ⁵/
	Hefei	/t͡ɕiɐʔ⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/t͡ɕiəʔ²/
	Pingyao	/t͡ɕiʌʔ¹³/
	Hohhot	/t͡ɕiaʔ⁴³/
Wu	Shanghai	/t͡ɕiɪʔ⁵/
	Suzhou	/t͡ɕiəʔ⁵/
	Hangzhou	/t͡ɕiəʔ⁵/
	Wenzhou	/t͡ɕi²¹³/
Hui	Shexian	/t͡ɕieʔ²¹/
Hui	Tunxi	/t͡ɕia⁵/
Xiang	Changsha	/t͡ɕie²⁴/
Xiang	Xiangtan	/t͡ɕie²⁴/
Gan	Nanchang	/t͡ɕiɛʔ⁵/
Hakka	Meixian	/kiat̚¹/
Hakka	Taoyuan
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/kit̚³/
	Nanning	/kit̚³³/
	Hong Kong	/kit̚³/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/kiat̚³²/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/kaiʔ²³/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/kiɛ²⁴/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/kiak̚²/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/kit̚⁵/ /ke⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese: ket

Rime
Character	潔
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	屑 (87)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	古屑切
Baxter	ket
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ket̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ket̚/
Shao Rongfen	/kɛt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kɛt̚/
Li Rong	/ket̚/
Wang Li	/kiet̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kiet̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jie
Expected Cantonese Reflex	git³

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[k]ˤet/

(Zhengzhang): /*keːd/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	潔
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jié
Middle Chinese	‹ ket ›
Old Chinese	/*[k]ˁet/
English	pure, purify
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	潔
Reading #	1/1
No.	6507
Phonetic component	丯
Rime group	月
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	結
Old Chinese	/*keːd/

Definitions

潔

Compounds

Japanese

Shinjitai	潔
Kyūjitai ^[1]	潔󠄅 潔+`󠄅`^? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

潔

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

Go-on: けち (kechi)
Kan-on: けつ (ketsu, Jōyō)
Kun: いさぎよい (isagiyoi, 潔い, Jōyō)

Proper noun

潔(きよし) • (Kiyoshi)

a male given name

References

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

Korean

Hanja

潔 (eumhun 깨끗할 결 (kkaekkeuthal gyeol))

hanja form^? of 결 (“clean; pure”)

Compounds

결백 (潔白, gyeolbaek, “innocence”)

Vietnamese

Han character

潔: Hán Nôm readings: khiết

clean; pure; innocent

References

Nom Foundation
Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm, NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999