戒

jiè

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Meanings

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jiè

1.to guard against
2.to exhort
3.to admonish or warn
4.to give up or stop doing sth
5.Buddhist monastic discipline
6.ring (for a finger)

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Wiktionary

1.to warn; to caution; to admonish
2.to guard against; to forbid
3.to give up; to quit (a bad habit)
4.to fast; to purify oneself
5.rules governing behavior; precepts
6.to command; to order
7.careful; cautious
8.to warn; to admonish; to caution
9.to take precautions; to guard against
10.commandments; precepts; tenets

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Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 戈 (“halberd”) + 廾 (“hands”) – to hold up a weapon as warning.

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Stroke order

Components

戒戈卄

Components from cjk-decomp · MIT

Example sentences

戒煙很難。
It is difficult to give up smoking.
我無法戒煙。
I can't give up smoking.
你何時要戒煙?
When are you going to quit smoking?
我戒煙一年了。
I gave up smoking for a year.
我一年前戒了烟。
I quit smoking a year ago.
我一年前戒了烟。
I gave up smoking a year ago.

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Synonyms

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Related words

戒指 (finger) ring 戒烟 to give up smoking 戒备 to take precautions 受戒 to take oaths as a monk (Buddhism)戒惧 wary 戒行 (Buddhism) to adhere strictly to the ethical precepts 戒规 religious precept 戒律 monastic discipline 传戒 (Buddhism) to initiate sb for monkhood or nunhood 戒子 (finger) ring 八戒 the eight precepts (Buddhism)勒戒 to force sb to give up (a drug)