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Kanji Detail for 羯 - "wether, jie"
羯
- Meaning
羯 means "wether, jie."
Wether - A castrated sheep.
Jie - Name of an ethnic group; a tribe of the Xiongnu in western ancient China.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
barbarian
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
wether, castrated ram; deer skin
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
Jie people, a tribe of northern China around the 4th century
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
wether, castrated ram; deer skin
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
A castrated sheep (wether). | A separate branch of the Xiongnu. In Jin times they came to dwell in the territory of Jieshi. Hence they were called 羯. Shi Le was of this ethnicity. Now in the territory of Liao County, Shanxi.
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