節 (zit3 | jie2 jie1) : festival; section; chastity; restrict

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節

zit3

jie2 jie1

[1] [n] festival; holiday; seasons
[2] [n] section; division; length
[3] [n] chastity; temperance; moderation
[4] [n] [music] rhythm; beat; metre
[5] [n] formality; etiquette; protocol
[6] [v] restrict; economize; regulate
[7] [v] abridge; extract; delete
[8] [n] joint; node; knot; link

Pinyin jie1 is used only as colloquial version for a very few nouns in last definition.

Default PoS:

Additional PoS:

Stroke count: 13

Level: 2

Radical: 竹 (#118)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

節 / 节

This word has been viewed 20175 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 20th May 2016 06:09

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降臨節 gong3 lam4 zit3 jiang4 lin2 jie2 = Advent (four week period before Christmas)

情節 cing4 zit3 qing2 jie2 = plot (of a film) 國

母親節 mou5 can1 zit3 mu3 qin1 jie2 = Mother's Day

情人節 cing4 jan4 zit3 qing2 ren2 jie2 = Valentine's Day

中秋節 zung1 cau1 zit3 zhong1 qiu1 jie2 = Mid-Autumn Festival

春節 ceon1 zit3 chun1 jie2 = Spring Festival; Chinese New Year

勞動節 lou4 dung6 zit3 lao2 dong4 jie2 = International Labor Day

節日 zit3 jat6 jie2 ri4 = holiday; auspicious day; festival

感恩節 gam2 jan1 zit3 gan3 en1 jie2 = Thanksgiving

禮節 lai5 zit3 li3 jie2 = etiquette; protocol
See all 145 compounds (CantoDict reports 154 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

Showing all 18 examples containing 節

聖誕節就快到喇粵
It will be Christmas soon

聖誕節快來了國
It will be Christmas soon

聖誕節之前只剩下二十三天買禮物了！國
There are only 23 shopping days left until Christmas.

希望大家有個輕鬆悠閑嘅聖誕節粵
I hope we have a relaxing Christmas.

希望大家過個輕鬆悠閒的聖誕節國
I hope we have a relaxing Christmas.

你覺得聖誕節當天會不會下雪？國
Do you think it will snow on Christmas Day?

喺聖誕節，我哋會大宴親友粵
At Christmas we will have a big party.

我們聖誕節當天要辦個大聚會國
On Christmas Day we will have a big party.

你聖誕節要什麼禮物？國
What would you like for Christmas?
[(implying presents)]

今年聖誕節不要喝醉喔！國
Don't get drunk this Christmas!

今年聖誕節不要在我身上花錢喔！國
Don't spend your money on me this Christmas!

聖誕節最啱一家人團聚粵
Christmas is a time for family.

聖誕節是闔家團聚的好時光國
Christmas is a time for family.

春節是動物的發情期國
Animals mate during spring.

每位藝術家對作品的細節一點都不敢苟且
All the artists pay very careful details towards their art pieces.

快要達成協議時對方節外生枝國
An agreement was about to be reached when the other side raised new issues

呢個復活節係咪去北海道滑雪,重係十劃都未有一撇。粵
It's still far too early to tell if we are going skiing in Hokkaido this Easter.
[In this sentence, the third character 都 in the idiom 十劃都未有一撇 could be moved three spaces up so that the latter half of the sentence would become 都重係十劃未有一撇. The meaning would remain the same. ]

年卅晚同家人喺度𨅝檯腳, 點知得咁啱男朋友又預訂咗情人節喺呢度食燭光晚餐。粵
I had my reunion dinner with my family here on Chinese New Year's Eve. Little did I know that my boyfriend made a reservation to have our candlelight dinner in this same place on Valentine's day.

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國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese.
粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

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Decimal representation of this word: 節
Unicode code for this character: U+7bc0 (off-site link)

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