洁jié
clean, pure; to purify, to cleanse. 9 strokes, radical 氵, first met in HSK 6.
How to write 洁
Strokes 1–3 write 氵, then strokes 4–9 write 吉.
Free, with no account: the app draws each stroke, then you write it and it says which stroke went wrong.
Print a 米字格 practice sheet for 洁 · the stroke-order rules
What 洁 is made of
氵 (shuǐ, water) and 吉 (jí, lucky).
氵 carries the meaning — water — and 吉 carries the sound.
Words that use 洁
| 清洁 | clean, cleanliness 指没有脏东西 一位清洁工亲眼看见河水变浑。The channel soon returned to cleanliness. Lesson 631, 河水复清 · 法安天下与正气长存 · Judicial Justice & Principled Restraint |
| 清洁工 | cleaner, street cleaner 指从事保洁工作的人 一位清洁工亲眼看见河水变浑。A cleaner noticed that the river had turned muddy. Lesson 631, 河水复清 · 法安天下与正气长存 · Judicial Justice & Principled Restraint |
Characters that share the sound part 吉
Written with the same phonetic, so their readings tend to rhyme with each other.
More characters with the radical 氵
All 76 of them, and what the radical means, on the 氵 radical page.