戒
Ancient forms
4 formsGlyphs: Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
Meaning
jiè jie4
- to guard against
- to exhort
- to admonish or warn
- to give up or stop doing sth
- Buddhist monastic discipline
- ring (for a finger)
Example sentences
- I gave up smoking for the sake of my health.
HSK words with 戒
More words with 戒
- 戒子 jièzi (finger) ring
- 戒心 jièxīn vigilance
- 戒行 jièxíng (Buddhism) to adhere strictly to the ethical precepts
- 力戒 lìjiè to try everything to avoid; to guard against
- 开戒 kāijiè to end abstinence
- 传戒 chuánjiè (Buddhism) to initiate sb for monkhood or nunhood
- 戒酒 jièjiǔ to give up drinking
- 八戒 bājiè the eight precepts (Buddhism)
- 戒毒 jièdú to kick a drug habit