| Chinese Text Project |
| 絕 U+7D55 |  Seal script |  Jinwen |  Jianbo | 绝 Simplified character | 𠤉 Semantic variant | 𢇍 Semantic variant |
| Radical: | 糸+ 6 strokes = 12 strokes total. |
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| References: | Guangyun: p.498#26 Kangxi: p.922#04 Cihai: p.1041r6c02 GSR: 296.a Hanyu: v5,p3396#04 |
| Composition: | Component of: 㔃 𨼎 㔢 𢴭 𥨟 𥳵 𧑾 |
| Mandarin: | jué ㄐㄩㄝˊ |
| Cantonese: | zyut3 zyut6 |
| Tang reconstruction: | *dzhiuɛt |
| Shuowen: | 《糸部》絕：斷絲也。从糸从刀从卩。 |
| Guangyun: | 《廣韻·入聲·薛·絕》絕：斷也，作絶非。情雪切，一。 |
| Kangxi: | 《康熙字典·糸部·六》絕：〔古文〕𢇍𠤉《廣韻》《集韻》情雪切《韻會》徂雪切，𠀤音截。《說文》斷絲。从糸从刀从卪，象不連體絕二絲。《廣韻》絕作絕，非。《博雅》斷也。《玉篇》滅也。《書·甘誓》天用勦絕其命。又《詩·小雅》終踰絕險。《箋》踰度陷絕之險。又《禮·月令》振乏絕。《疏》不續曰絕。又《周禮·春官·大祝》辨九祭，七曰絕祭。《註》絕肺以祭，謂之絕祭。又《爾雅·釋木》正絕流曰亂。《註》直橫流也。《史記·天官書》絕漢抵營室。《註》索隱曰：絕，度也。《荀子·勸學篇》假舟檝者，非能水也，而絕江河。《註》絕，過也。又《屈原·離騷》萎絕其何傷兮。《註》絕，落也。又《集韻》租悅切，音茁。義同。又《韻補》叶此芮切。《司馬相如·哀二世賦》以絕叶勢。 |
| Fanqie: | 情雪 (《廣韻·入聲·薛·絕》) |
| Unihan definition: | cut, sever, break off, terminate |
Example usage
| 《論語·子罕》: | 子絕四：毋意，毋必，毋固，毋我。 |
| There were four things from which the Master was entirely free. He had no foregone conclusions, no arbitrary predeterminations, no obstinacy, and no egoism. | |
| 《孟子·離婁上》: | 齊景公曰：『既不能令，又不受命，是絕物也。』 |
| The duke Jing of Qi said, "Not to be able to command others, and at the same time to refuse to receive their commands, is to cut one's self off from all intercourse with others." | |
| 《禮記·緇衣》: | 子曰：「輕絕貧賤，而重絕富貴，則好賢不堅，而惡惡不著也。」 |
| The Master said, 'When a man on light grounds breaks off his friendship with the poor and mean, and only on great grounds with the rich and noble, his love of worth cannot be great, nor does his hatred of evil clearly appear.' | |
| 《揚子法言·序》: | 假言周于天地，贊于神明，幽弘撗廣，絕于邇言，譔《寡見》。 |
| Sayings of the past spread throughout Heaven and Earth, serving as an aid to daimonic clarity. Profound and great, vast and broad, they surpass recent sayings. Thus I have written "The Seldom Seen." | |
| 《莊子·逍遙遊》: | 有鳥焉，其名為鵬，背若泰山，翼若垂天之雲，摶扶搖羊角而上者九萬里，絕雲氣，負青天，然後圖南，且適南冥也。 |
| There is (also) a bird named the peng; its back is like the Tai mountain, while its wings are like clouds all round the sky. On a whirlwind it mounts upwards as on the whorls of a goat's horn for 90,000 li, till, far removed from the cloudy vapours, it bears on its back the blue sky, and then it shapes its course for the South, and proceeds to the ocean there. | |
| 《道德經》: | 絕聖棄智，民利百倍。 |
| If we could renounce our sageness and discard our wisdom, it would be better for the people a hundredfold. | |
| 《商君書·戰法》: | 其過失：無敵，深入偝險絕塞，民倦且饑渴，而復遇疾，此敗道也。 |
| But it is a mistake for an army to penetrate deeply into the enemy's country, in difficult and unsurmountable terrain and cut off in a cul-de-sac; the men will become exhausted, hungry and thirsty as well, and will, moreover, fall victims to disease. This is the way to defeat. | |
| 《荀子·大略》: | 是故君子蚤絕之。 |
| 《說苑·脩文》: | 先人之色，不絕於目。 |
| 《春秋繁露·玉杯》: | 賊不複見，以其宜滅絕也。 |
| 《韓詩外傳·卷一》: | 傳曰：夫行露之人許嫁矣，然而未往也，見一物不具，一禮不備，守節貞理，守死不往，君子以為得婦道之宜，故舉而傳之，揚而歌之，以絕無道之求，防汙道之行乎！ |
| 《大戴禮記·禮察》: | 然如曰禮云禮云，貴絕惡於未萌、而起信於微眇，使民日從善遠罪而不自知也。 |
| 《白虎通德論·爵》: | 言欲其世世不絕也。 |
| 《新書·耳痺》: | 越國之俗，勤勞而不慍，好亂勝而無禮，谿徼而輕絕，俗好詛而倍盟。 |
| 《新序·善謀下》: | 歌曰：「檻鵠高蜚，一舉千里，羽翮已就，橫絕四海，當可奈何？」 |
| 《中論·法象》: | 故無絕交，無畔朋。 |
| 《孔子家語·致思》: | 吾平生厚交，而今皆離絕，是三失也。 |
| 《潛夫論·讚學》: | 是故君子者，性非絕世，善自託於物也。 |
| 《論衡·幸偶》: | 孔子、舜之次也，生無尺土，周流應聘，削迹絕糧。 |
| 《太玄經·樂》: | 次四，拂其繫，絕其纗，佚厥心。 |
| 《風俗通義·五伯》: | 皆無興微繼絕、尊事王家之功。 |
| 《孔叢子·嘉言》: | 旁人皆哀其絕，而造之者不知其危，子之謂乎。 |
| 《申鑒·政體》: | 縱民之情謂之亂，絕民之情謂之荒。 |
| 《素書·原始章》: | 得機而動，則能成絕代之功。 |
| 《新語·道基》: | 川谷交錯，風化未通，九州絕隔，未有舟車之用，以濟深致遠。 |
| 《獨斷·卷上》: | 亡國之社：古者天子亦取亡國之社以分諸侯，使為社以自儆戒，屋之掩其上使不通天，柴其下使不通地，自與天地絕也，面北向陰，示滅亡也。 |
| 《蔡中郎集·獨斷》: | 亡國之社：古者天子亦取亡國之社以分諸侯，使為社以自儆戒，屋之掩其上使不通天，柴其下使不通地，自與天地絕也，面北向陰，示滅亡也。 |
| 《墨子·經下》: | 均之絕不，說在所均。 |
| 《魯勝墨辯注敘》: | 自鄧析至秦時，名家者世有篇籍，率頗難知，後學莫復傳習，於今五百餘歲，遂亡絕。 |
| 《列子·仲尼》: | 前矢造準，而无絕落，後矢之括猶銜弦，視之若一焉。 |
| 《鶡冠子·著希》: | 故賢者之於亂世也，絕豫而無由通，異類而無以告，苦乎哉。 |
| 《文子·道原》: | 「多聞數窮，不如守中」，「絕學無憂」，「絕聖棄智，民利百倍」。 |
| 《文始真經·五鑑》: | 知道無物，故不尊卓絕之行，不驚微妙之言。 |
| 《列仙傳·老子》: | 塞兑內鏡，冥神絕涯。 |
| 《老子河上公章句》: | 絕學絕學不真，不合道文。 |
| 《韓非子·初見秦》: | 天下又比周而軍華下，大王以詔破之，兵至梁郭下，圍梁數旬則梁可拔，拔梁則魏可舉，舉魏則荊、趙之意絕，荊、趙之意絕則趙危，趙危而荊狐疑，東以弱齊、燕，中以凌三晉。 |
| 《慎子·威德》: | 絕險曆遠者，不慢於禦。 |
| 《管子·輕重戊》: | 管子對曰：「天子幼弱，諸侯亢強，聘享不上，公其弱強繼絕，率諸侯以起周室之祀。」 |
| 《孫子兵法·九變》: | 圮地無舍，衢地合交，絕地無留，圍地則謀，死地則戰，途有所不由，軍有所不擊，城有所不攻，地有所不爭，君命有所不受。 |
| 《吳子·圖國》: | 曰：『寡人聞之，世不絕聖，國不乏賢，能得其師者王，得其友者霸。』 |
| 《六韜·守土》: | 順者、任之以德，逆者、絕之以力。 |
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