jiē
adverb HSK 7-9 #4,399

Meanings

  1. 1 all
  2. 2 everyone
  3. 3 in every case

Examples

Yǒuzhìzhěshìjìngchéng, zhè jù huà rénrénjiēzhī.
Where there's a will there's a way — everyone knows this saying.
Jiēdàhuānxǐ shì zuìhǎo de jiéguǒ.
Everyone being happy is the best outcome.

Tips

register
is literary/formal. In everyday speech, use instead. appears often in set phrases like 皆大欢喜 and 人人皆知.

Components

radical
bái
white
Bottom indexing radical . Originally the lower element was a 'speak' shape — many people side-by-side speaking in unison — and graphic regularization turned it into . Useful family clue: 皆大欢喜 (all are delighted), 人人皆知 (everyone knows).
semantic
compare; side by side
Top pictures two figures standing side by side. Here it sets the image of multiple people lined up together — what is true of one in the row is true of every one. This 'all in line' picture seeds the meaning all/every/in every case.

Stroke Order

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