潔

See also: 洁

潔 U+6F54, 潔 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6F54 ← 潓 [U+6F53] CJK Unified Ideographs 潕 → [U+6F55]

Translingual

Han character

潔 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 水手竹火 (EQHF), four-corner 3719₃, composition ⿰氵絜)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 648, character 40
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18231
• Dae Jaweon: page 1058, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1743, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6F54

Chinese

trad.		潔
simp.		洁*

Glyph origin

	Old Chinese
夆	*pʰoŋ, *boŋ, *ɡaːds
丯	*kreːds
瘛	*kʰjeds, *ɡeːds, *kʰjed
觢	*ɡjeds
契	*kʰeːds, *kʰeːd, *kʰeːd, *kʰɯd
栔	*kʰeːds
禊	*ɡeːds
稧	*ɡeːds
楔	*kreːd, *sqʰeːd
葜	*kʰreːd
猰	*qreːd, *kraːd, *kʰeːd
窫	*qreːd
揳	*sqʰeːd
偰	*sqʰeːd
潔	*keːd
絜	*keːd, *ɡeːd
鍥	*keːd, *kʰeːd
挈	*kʰeːd
蛪	*kʰeːd
齧	*ŋeːd
褉	*qʰeːd
喫	*ŋ̊ʰeːɡ

Characters in the same phonetic series (丯) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *keːd): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 絜 (OC *keːd, *ɡeːd).

Pronunciation

Variety	Location	edit 潔
Mandarin	Beijing	/t͡ɕiɛ³⁵/
	Harbin	/t͡ɕiɛ²⁴/
	Tianjin	/t͡ɕie⁴⁵/
	Jinan	/t͡ɕiə⁴²/
	Qingdao	/t͡ɕiə⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/t͡ɕiɛ⁴²/
	Xi'an	/t͡ɕiɛ²⁴/
	Xining	/t͡ɕi²⁴/
	Yinchuan	/t͡ɕie¹³/
	Lanzhou	/t͡ɕiə¹³/
	Ürümqi	/t͡ɕiɤ⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/t͡ɕie²¹³/
	Chengdu	/t͡ɕie³¹/
	Guiyang	/t͡ɕie²¹/
	Kunming	/t͡ɕiɛ³¹/
	Nanjing	/t͡ɕieʔ⁵/
	Hefei	/t͡ɕiɐʔ⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/t͡ɕiəʔ²/
	Pingyao	/t͡ɕiʌʔ¹³/
	Hohhot	/t͡ɕiaʔ⁴³/
Wu	Shanghai	/t͡ɕiɪʔ⁵/
	Suzhou	/t͡ɕiəʔ⁵/
	Hangzhou	/t͡ɕiəʔ⁵/
	Wenzhou	/t͡ɕi²¹³/
Hui	Shexian	/t͡ɕieʔ²¹/
	Tunxi	/t͡ɕia⁵/
Xiang	Changsha	/t͡ɕie²⁴/
	Xiangtan	/t͡ɕie²⁴/
Gan	Nanchang	/t͡ɕiɛʔ⁵/
Hakka	Meixian	/kiat̚¹/
	Taoyuan
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/kit̚³/
	Nanning	/kit̚³³/
	Hong Kong	/kit̚³/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/kiat̚³²/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/kaiʔ²³/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/kiɛ²⁴/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/kiak̚²/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/kit̚⁵/ /ke⁵⁵/

Rime
Character	潔
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	屑 (87)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	古屑切
Baxter	ket
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ket̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ket̚/
Shao Rongfen	/kɛt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kɛt̚/
Li Rong	/ket̚/
Wang Li	/kiet̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kiet̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jie
Expected Cantonese Reflex	git3

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	潔
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jié
Middle Chinese	‹ ket ›
Old Chinese	/*[k]ˁet/
English	pure, purify
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	潔
Reading #	1/1
No.	6507
Phonetic component	丯
Rime group	月
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	結
Old Chinese	/*keːd/

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jié (jie²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄝˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): git³
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): kiet / kiat

  (Meixian, Guangdong): giad⁵

• Eastern Min (BUC): gáik
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): kiat

  (Teochew, Peng'im): giêg⁴ / giag⁴

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁷ciq

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jié
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄝˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jié
    • Wade–Giles: chieh²
    • Yale: jyé
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jye
    • Palladius: цзе (cze)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɛ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: git³
    • Yale: git
    • Cantonese Pinyin: git⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: gid³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kiːt̚³/
• Hakka
  • (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kiet
    • Hakka Romanization System: gied^ˋ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: giad⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /ki̯et̚²/
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kiat
    • Hakka Romanization System: giad^ˋ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: giad⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /ki̯at̚²/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: giad⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /kiat̚¹/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: gáik
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kaiʔ²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kiat
    • Tâi-lô: kiat
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kiad
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kiɛt̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kiɛt̚⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kiɛt̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kiɛt̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kiɛt̚³²/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: giêg⁴ / giag⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: kiek / kiak
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kiek̚²/, /kiak̚²/

Note:

• giêg4 - Chaozhou;
• giag4 - Shantou.

• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁷ciq
    • MiniDict: cih^入
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁴jiq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡ɕiɪʔ⁵⁵/

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• Dialectal data

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• Middle Chinese: ket

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[k]ˤet/

  (Zhengzhang): /*keːd/

Definitions

潔

1. clean; pure; innocent
2. to clean; to purify
3. honest; upright

Compounds

• 不清不潔 / 不清不洁
• 乾圓潔淨 / 干圆洁净
• 保潔 / 保洁 (bǎojié)
• 光潔 / 光洁
• 光潔度 / 光洁度
• 冰清玉潔 / 冰清玉洁 (bīngqīngyùjié)
• 廉潔 / 廉洁 (liánjié)
• 廉潔奉公 / 廉洁奉公
• 心誠意潔 / 心诚意洁
• 才高行潔 / 才高行洁
• 整潔 / 整洁 (zhěngjié)
• 水潔冰清 / 水洁冰清
• 洗潔精 / 洗洁精 (xǐjiéjīng)
• 涓潔 / 涓洁
• 清潔 / 清洁 (qīngjié)
• 清潔劑 / 清洁剂
• 清潔溜溜 / 清洁溜溜
• 清潔者 / 清洁者
• 源清流潔 / 源清流洁
• 潔婦 / 洁妇
• 潔己 / 洁己
• 潔己奉公 / 洁己奉公
• 潔己愛人 / 洁己爱人
• 潔操履 / 洁操履
• 潔敬 / 洁敬
• 潔樽 / 洁樽
• 潔淨 / 洁净 (jiéjìng)
• 潔癖 / 洁癖 (jiépǐ)
• 潔白 / 洁白 (jiébái)
• 潔白無瑕 / 洁白无瑕
• 潔言汙行 / 洁言污行
• 潔身 / 洁身
• 潔身自好 / 洁身自好
• 潔身自愛 / 洁身自爱 (jiéshēnzì'ài)
• 潔郎 / 洁郎
• 潔齒劑 / 洁齿剂
• 玉潔冰清 / 玉洁冰清
• 皎潔 / 皎洁 (jiǎojié)
• 簡潔 / 简洁 (jiǎnjié)
• 精潔 / 精洁
• 純潔 / 纯洁 (chúnjié)
• 聖潔 / 圣洁 (shèngjié)
• 貞潔 / 贞洁 (zhēnjié)
• 雅潔 / 雅洁
• 高潔 / 高洁 (gāojié)
• 齋潔 / 斋洁

Japanese

Shinjitai	潔
Kyūjitai [1]	潔󠄅 潔+󠄅? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

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Category:Japanese terms spelled with 潔

潔

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: けち (kechi)
• Kan-on: けつ (ketsu, Jōyō)
• Kun: いさぎよい (isagiyoi, 潔い, Jōyō)

Proper noun

潔(きよし) • (Kiyoshi) 

1. a male given name

References

1. “潔”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

Korean

Hanja

潔 (eumhun 깨끗할 결 (kkaekkeuthal gyeol))

1. hanja form^? of 결 (“clean; pure”)

Compounds

• 결백 (潔白, gyeolbaek, “innocence”)

Vietnamese

Han character

潔: Hán Nôm readings: khiết

1. clean; pure; innocent

References

• Nom Foundation
• Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
• Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
• Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm, NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999