戒 jiè — to guard against; to be on guard; to warn; to admonish; to vigilantly watch
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Level 1 · Common HSK 6 #606
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Basic definition
verb
Detailed explanation
verb
- (会意。小篆字形，上面是“戈”，下面象两只手(即“廾”)。两手持戈，表示戒备森严。本义:警戒，戒备)
- guard against e.g 戒慎 · 戒书 · 戒旦 · 戒守 · 戒命 · 戒戢 · 戒诗
- warn e.g 戒勉 · 戒约 · 戒谕 · 戒朝
- be careful;caution e.g 戒口 · 戒火 · 戒谨 · 戒慎
- be ready e.g 戒装 · 戒辖
- start e.g 戒行 · 戒途 · 戒程 · 戒道
- abstrain from;give up;stop e.g 戒烟戒酒 戒杀 · 戒脱 · 戒绝 · 戒诗
- invite e.g 戒期 · 戒速 · 戒食
- fast
noun
- warning
- ring e.g 钻戒
- Buddhist monastic discipline e.g 戒定慧 · 戒体
- style e.g 戒书
- border;limit
Related words
- 戒指 (finger) ring; band; wedding ring; engagement ring; ring
- 警戒 to guard against; to be on alert
- 戒毒 to give up drug/to quit (an addiction)/to break (dependence)
- 戒备 to take precautions; to guard against (emergency); on guard; alert; preparedness
- 戒烟 to give up smoking; to quit smoking; to stop smoking; smoking cessation
- 惩戒 to discipline; to reprimand; to punish as a warning; to chastise; disciplinary a
- 戒严 martial law/emergency measures
- 力戒 to strictly avoid; to resolutely guard against
- 警戒线 security line; warning cordon
- 戒心 vigilance; wariness; caution; guard; alertness; distrust
- 引以为戒 to take sth as a warning; to learn a lesson and guard against repeating it
- 猪八戒 Zhu Bajie (a comic gluttonous character in Journey to the West)
- 钻戒 a diamond ring
- 戒骄戒躁 to guard against arrogance and rashness
- 戒律 monastic discipline; commandment; precept; religious rules; Buddhist precepts
- 警戒水位 warning water level; flood alert level
- 戒除 to give up; to quit
- 受戒 to take oaths as a monk (Buddh.)/to take orders
- 斋戒 to observe a religious fast; to abstain from food or certain activities before a
- 清规戒律 regulations and taboos; shackling rules