潔 — Chinese character
潔
jié
clean, pure; to purify, to cleanse
- Pinyin
- jié
- Radical
- 85 ⽔ (Water)
- Strokes
- 15
- Components
- 氵 絜
- Formation
- pictophonetic — water; meaning component 氵; sound component 絜
- Simplified
- 洁
- Japanese
- 潔 as a kanji
潔 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 3 · Art of War 1 · Mencius 6
- Analects 7.28
- Analects 18.7
- Art of War 8.12
- Mencius 3B.3
- Mencius 4B.25
- Mencius 5A.7
- Mencius 7B.14
- Mencius 7B.37
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.