HSK 5 · Verbs

戒 jiè “to give up (a habit)” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 戒 means

  1. to give up (a habit)
  2. to quit
  3. to guard against
  4. to exhort
  5. to admonish or warn
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • to give up or stop doing sth
  • Buddhist monastic discipline
  • ring (for a finger)

How to say 戒

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale戒jiè4th tone, falling

戒 in a sentence

  1. 戒咖啡是好主意吗？

    Jiè kāfēi shì hǎo zhǔyi ma?

    Is quitting coffee a good idea?

    Sentence #13904554 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  2. 我一定要把香烟戒了！

    Wǒ yídìng yào bǎ xiāngyān jiè le!

    I’m definitely going to quit smoking!

    Sentence #2300142 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 他为了健康，戒烟了。

    Tā wèile jiànkāng, jièyān le.

    He gave up smoking for his health.

    Sentence #12420150 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 戒 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 戒 (jiè) with each of its parts in a different colour
戒jièto guard against
  • 戈halberd · gē
  • 廾two hands · gǒng

How to write 戒

戒 7 strokes

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戒 (jiè) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 戒 (jiè). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 戒

Words with 戒

戒指jièzhi · (finger) ring戒备jièbèi · to guard against

More words: Common Verbs

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FAQs

戒 (jiè) means “to give up (a habit)” or “to quit”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it jiè: jiè with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 戒 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type jie with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 戒 from the suggestions. Typing jie into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
戒 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.