Read Edit View history Discussion 絶 jué HSK6 cut Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Variant of 絕. Sources Readings & variants Unicode 绝 jué cut Simplified Depicts a knife (刀) cutting a thread (纟). 卩 represents the sound. Simplified form of 絕. Components 纟 纟 Iconic component sī silk 纟 is a component form of 糸. 刀 刀 Iconic component dāo knife 卩 卩 Sound component jié person kneeling Modern form looks like 巴. Change in form Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 卩 than it was in ancient scripts. Sources Character origin 漢語多功能字庫季旭昇《說文新證》p.888Readings & variants Unicode