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Kanji Detail for 契 - "contract, pledge, vow"
契
- Meaning
契 means "contract, pledge, vow."
To pledge - To make a firm promise.
Contract - Promise; vow; agreement.
To carve - To engrave; to inscribe.
Tally - Seal; token; mark.
To struggle - To toil and suffer; to worry.
Long absence - Not meeting for a long time.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
pledge; promise; vow
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
deed, contract, bond; engrave
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
to carve; carved words; to agree; a contract; a deed
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
deed, bond, contract; to engrave
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
An agreement. Written documents for contracts. Such as 契據, 文契. | To match. Like today's contracts. Contracts have left and right halves; each party holds one to establish trust. | Spiritual harmony. Minds agreeing is called 相契. | A person's name. One of Shun's five ministers. The ancestor of the Shang dynasty. | 契闘: Hardship. See (Book of Odes). Also, separation. Now friends being apart is also called 契闊. From (Book of Han). | 契丹: A tribal name. Since the Later Wei, they nomaded around the upper Liao River. At the end of Tang, the Yelü clan became powerful and made Khitan their state name. Later changed to Liao.
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