(jué) - to decide, to determine (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
juéTraditional: 决
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Translation
to decide, to determine (bound morpheme)
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: the water radical 氵refers to its original sense of cutting a channel to let water through, hence to settle or determine, and 夬 (guài) supplies the sound.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 氵(water radical) + 夬 (guài, phonetic)
Stroke order
决
Examples
。
We haven't decided yet.
。
This problem needs to be solved.
。
His decision surprised everyone.
。
He made a decision.
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The final of the competition is tomorrow.
决 (jué) is a bound morpheme meaning to decide or determine, central to 决定 (jué dìng) "to decide" and 解决 (jiě jué) "to solve".
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 决.
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