cái

cut out

To cut  cloth 

Components
十 meaning component

  Meaning component

shí

  

ten

戈 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

spear

衣 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

clothes

Evolution

裁 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
裁 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

cái

cut out; decrease; to cut out (as a dress); to cut; to trim; to reduce; to diminish; to cut back (e.g. on staff); decision; judgment

Most common words with 裁
Freq.
Word
Meaning

总裁

chairman

裁判

judgment

裁决

ruling

制裁

to punish

to cut

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[dz]ˤə

dzoj

cái

cut out clothes


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 16.3864% of movies

1510th most common character in movies

1203rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+88C1

Shuowen

“裁,制衣也。从衣,聲。”


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