Character Contained In References Comments
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traditional formhandwritten form

Variants
Phonetic
Semantic
Apparent
即 竹 ⿱⺮即
Mandarin
jie2, jie1
English
Definitions
section; festival; temperate; part; point; to economize; joint; knot; node; to save; segment
Mnemonic
Portion 即 with bamboo radical 竹 added to emphasize divisions
Etymology
Notes
Perhaps the phonetic 即 originally held the meaning of proper quantity