捷

jié

abbr. for 捷克[Jie2 ke4]

Czech; Czech Republic; victory; triumph; quick; nimble; prompt

hand (扌) + phonetic (疌) = swift, victorious action

The hand radical anchors the sense of seizing a moment or snatching victory quickly. 疌 contributes the sound jié and does not carry the meaning here.

扌+疌→捷
扌HandSemantic
疌No independent semantic role herePhonetic

前线传来捷报,大家都很高兴。

qián xiàn chuán lái jié bào , dà jiā dōu hěn gāo xìng 。

Good news of victory came from the front, and everyone was very happy.

他思维敏捷,每次都能很快找到答案。

tā sī wéi mǐn jié , měi cì dōu néng hěn kuài zhǎo dào dá àn 。

His thinking is nimble, and he can always find the answer quickly.

Words with 捷

敏捷

mǐn jié

nimble

叶卡捷琳堡

yè kǎ jié lín bǎo

Yekaterinburg (Russian city, also known as Ekaterinburg or Sverdlovsk)

门捷列夫

mén jié liè fū

Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834-1907), Russian chemist who introduced the periodic table

首战告捷

shǒu zhàn gào jié

to win the first battle

便捷化

biàn jié huà

to facilitate

便捷

biàn jié

convenient and fast

保时捷

bǎo shí jié

Porsche (car company)

出师未捷身先死

chū shī wèi jié shēn xiān sǐ

"he failed to complete his quest before death" (line from the poem "The Premier of Shu" 蜀相[Shu3 xiang4] by Du Fu 杜甫[Du4 Fu3])

列别捷夫

liè bié jié fū

Lebedev or Lebedyev (Russian surname)

别赫捷列夫

bié hè jié liè fū

Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev (1857-1927), Russian neurologist and psychiatrist

台北捷运

tái běi jié yùn

Taipei Metro

告捷

gào jié

to win

More characters with 扌

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