How it used to be written
These are the forms of 潔, the traditional character: 洁 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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他为精神的洁净和获得道的方法教深思,道是表示人类最高的精神理想的一个原则。
He taught contemplation as a means of spiritual purification and the attainment of the Dao, a principle that signifies the highest spiritual ideals of mankind.
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小屋干净又整洁。
The cottage was clean and tidy.
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我承认,我不是世界上最整洁的人。
I admit, I'm not the tidiest person in the world.
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我的邻居是个十足的洁癖。
My neighbor's a real mysophobe.
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这条河的水很洁净。
The water in this river is very clean.