截

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to cut off (a length); to stop; to intercept; section; chunk; length

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Formation & memory

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Ideographic compound (会意字)

A bird 隹 cut off from its nest 十 by a weapon 戈

Components 十隹戈

lop off · Heisig RSH #1767

Thanksgiving + turkey

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
截然不同	jié rán bù tóng	entirely different; different as black and white
直截了当	zhí jié liǎo dàng	direct and plainspoken (idiom); blunt; straightforward
截长补短	jié cháng bǔ duǎn	take from the long to supplement the short (idiom); to offset each other's deficiencies; t…
横截面	héng jié miàn	cross-section
横截线	héng jié xiàn	transversal line
截面	jié miàn	section; cross-section
凉了半截	liáng le bàn jié	felt a chill (in one's heart); (one's heart) sank
截线	jié xiàn	intersecting line
截止日	jié zhǐ rì	deadline; cut-off date
截然	jié rán	sharply; distinctly; radically
截拳道	jié quán dào	Jeet Kun Do or Way of the Intercepting Fist, a fusion of Eastern and Western martial arts …
截尾	jié wěi	to dock; to trim (esp. the tail of an animal)
半截	bàn jié	half (of sth); halfway through
截图	jié tú	(computing) screenshot; to take a screenshot
截止期限	jié zhǐ qī xiàn	deadline
截塔	jié tǎ	zeta (Greek letter Ζζ)
直截	zhí jié	straightforward
截止到	jié zhǐ dào	(before an expression indicating a point of time) up to (that point); as of (that time)
截断	jié duàn	to break or cut in two; to sever; to cut off; (fig.) to cut off (a conversation, a flow et…
截取	jié qǔ	to cut off a section of sth