jué
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 two pieces of jade joined together

Examples

Èr yù xiāng hé wéi yī jué.
Two pieces of jade joined as one are called a jue.
Jué zì cháng yòng zài rénmíng lǐ, qǔ qí měihǎo zhī yì.
The character jue is often chosen for given names for its elegant meaning.

Tips

memory
is literally two jade glyphs set side by side, so it means a matched pair of jade. Because jade is prized and the shape is balanced, it is a popular character in personal names.

Components

radical
jade
The left side is the jade radical, the side form of written without its dot. Identical in shape to (king), but in jade-family characters it is the jade glyph — one of the two jade pieces in .
semantic
jade
The right side is the full (jade), keeping its dot. Two jade glyphs together form a meaning-compound: a joined pair of jade pieces, which is exactly what denotes.

Stroke Order

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