Hanja Analyzer
戒

戒 — gye

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
경계할 계
Romanization
gye
English
warn, caution, admonish
Mandarin
jiè
Japanese on'yomi
カイ
Japanese kun'yomi
いまし.める
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Secondary (Jōyō)
Newspaper frequency
#1,062 of 2,500
Strokes
7
Radical
戈 (62, 3 residual)
Unicode
U+6212

Parts that make up 戒

  • 戈 창 과 자루 긴 창무기와 싸움
  • 廾 맞잡은 두 손두 손으로 받쳐 드는 일

How 戒 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 戒 as a ideographic compound involving 戈, 廾.

Korean example words with 戒

  • 계언戒言 Korean gloss: 경계하는 말
  • 규계規戒 Korean gloss: 바르게 경계함
  • 계율戒律 Korean gloss: 지켜야 할 규범
  • 계칙戒飭 Korean gloss: 경계하여 타이름
  • 계구戒懼 Korean gloss: 조심하고 두려워함
  • 감계鑑戒 Korean gloss: 교훈이 될 만한 본보기
  • 의계醫戒 Korean gloss: 의사가 지켜야 할 도리나 교훈
  • 후계後戒 Korean gloss: 앞으로의 경계. 또는 뒷날에 대한 경고
  • 훈계訓戒 Korean gloss: 타일러서 잘못이 없도록 주의를 줌. 또는 그런 말
  • 수계受戒 Korean gloss: 부처의 가르침을 받드는 사람이 지켜야 할 계율을 받음
  • 계엄戒嚴 Korean gloss: 국가에 비상사태가 일어났을 때, 군대가 임시로 정부의 권한을 대신 함
  • 계도戒刀 Korean gloss: 비구가 늘 가지고 다니는 작은 칼. 머리카락이나 손톱, 베를 자르는 데 쓴다

Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)

Japanese words with 戒

  • 警戒けいかい vigilance; caution; alertness
  • 懲戒ちょうかい discipline; punishment; reprimand
  • 戒告かいこく admonition; warning; caution
  • 戒厳令かいげんれい martial law
  • 戒名かいみょう posthumous Buddhist name
  • 自戒じかい self-admonition
  • 哨戒しょうかい patrol (with ships or aircraft); patrolling
  • 戒律かいりつ (religious) precept; discipline; commandment
  • 戒めいましめ caution; admonition; warning
  • 戒めるいましめる to warn against; to caution against; to admonish
  • 破戒はかい breaking a commandment (usually religious); offense against the Buddhist commandments (offence)
  • 厳戒げんかい strict guard

Characters sharing the phonetic 戒

Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike. Most of this group are read “계” in Korean.

Other hanja read “계”

Other hanja with radical 戈

Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences