解 jiě
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 角 — angle, corner
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
解脱
jiětuō
to free oneself; liberation; release
Characters in this word
脱 tuō
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- ⺼ — meat, flesh
- Made of
- ⺼ meat, flesh 兑 to exchange
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 对她而言，辞去那份高薪却压抑的工作不是失败，而是一种解脱。 Duì tā éryán, cí qù nà fèn gāoxīn què yāyì de gōngzuò bú shì shībài, ér shì yì zhǒng jiětuō. For her, leaving that well-paid but oppressive job was not failure, but a kind of release.
- 把所有事情做完以后，我觉得终于解脱了。 Bǎ suǒyǒu shìqing zuò wán yǐhòu, wǒ juéde zhōngyú jiětuō le. After finishing everything, I felt I was finally free.
- 考试结束的那一刻，同学们都有一种解脱的感觉。 Kǎoshì jiéshù de nà yí kè, tóngxuémen dōu yǒu yì zhǒng jiětuō de gǎnjué. The moment the exam ended, the students all felt a sense of relief.
Related words
- 解决 jiějué to solve
- 解开 jiěkāi to untie; to undo
- 理解 lǐjiě to understand
- 缓解 huǎnjiě to ease; to relieve
- 解释 jiěshì to explain; explanation
- 了解 liǎojiě to understand; to know about
- 分解 fēnjiě to break down; to decompose
- 解除 jiěchú to remove; to cancel
- 解放 jiěfàng to liberate; liberation
- 调解 tiáojiě to mediate
- 误解 wùjiě to misunderstand
- 讲解 jiǎngjiě to explain