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決

jué

decide

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 夬 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "burst open". The meaning later shifted to "clear", "cut off", "decide" and "judge".

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

夬 sound component

夬  Sound component

guài

  

parted, decisive

Evolution

決 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
決 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
決 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

决 (決) 

jué

decide, determine, judge; to decide; to determine; to execute (sb); (of a dam etc) to breach or burst; definitely; certainly

Most common words with 決
Freq.
Word
Meaning

决定

to resolve

解决

to resolve

决赛

finals (of a competition)

坚决

firm

判决

to sentence

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[k]ʷˤet

kwet

jué

open a passage for a stream

*[k]ʷˤet

kwet

jué

open; decide


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 86.5770% of movies

320th most common character in movies

273rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Simplified

决

Unicode

U+6C7A

Shuowen

“決，行流也。从水，从夬。廬江有決水，出於大別山。”


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