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碣

jié
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 a round-topped stone tablet; a stele

Examples

墓旁还立着一块残碣。
Mù páng hái lì zhe yíkuài cán jié.
A weathered ancient stele still stood beside the tomb.
曹操在《观沧海》中写道：「东临碣石」。
Cáocāo zài 《 Guān cāng hǎi 》 zhōng xiě dào ：「 dōng lín jié shí 」。
In 'Viewing the Sea', Cao Cao wrote: 'East I come to Stone Tablet Mountain.'

Tips

history
The place name 碣石 ('Stone Tablet Mountain') on the Bohai coast is famous from Cao Cao's poem 'Viewing the Sea'. A traditional 碣 is a memorial stone with a rounded top, as opposed to a flat-topped 碑.

Components

radical
石 shí
stone; rock
The stone radical on the left. It tells you 碣 is something made of stone, here a carved memorial tablet.
phonetic
曷 hé
why; how (literary)
Supplies the sound. Standalone 曷 is hé, drifted here to jié. The same phonetic appears in 竭 and 歇.

Stroke Order

碣 jié