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

meaning for jié:

  • - to cut off (a length)
  • - to stop
  • - to intercept
  • - section
  • - chunk
  • - lengthup to (a time)
  • - by (a time)to close
  • - to stop
  • - to put a stop to sth
  • - cut-off point
  • - stopping point
  • - deadlinehalf (of sth)
  • - halfway throughto interceptto break or cut in two
  • - to sever
  • - to cut off
  • - (fig.) to cut off (a conversation, a flow etc)
  • - to interrupt
  • - (math.) to truncate