诀 訣
诀訣 in English
- to bid farewell / tricks of the trade / pithy mnemonic formula (e.g. Mao Zedong's 16-character mantra 十六字訣|十六字诀 on guerrilla warfare)
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 訣, the traditional character: 诀 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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很多人问我，青春的诀别是否意味着年迈的将近。
A lot of people ask me whether bidding goodbye to youth means old age is near.
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秘诀是什么？
What's the secret?