截
jié HSK6

cut off

截 jié
intercept verb
to stop, block, or intercept something or someone

警察在半路截住了那辆可疑的车辆。

jǐng​chá zài bàn​lù jié zhù le nà liàng kě​yí de chē​liàng.

The police intercepted the suspicious vehicle halfway.

section measure word
a segment, chunk, or length of an object

这截木头太长了，塞不进火炉。

zhè jié mù​tou tài cháng le, sāi bù jìn huǒ​lú.

This piece of wood is too long to fit into the stove.

cut off verb
to cut or sever a length of something

他把绳子截成了两段。

tā bǎ shéng​zi jié chéng le liǎng duàn.

He cut the rope into two pieces.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,552nd most common 65.7 per million
Movie subtitles
1,832nd most common 25.6 per million appears in 13% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
7.21 per million appears in 3% of films
Written text
22.5 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Strokes
14
Unicode
U+622A

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)