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(jué) - to decide, to determine (bound morpheme) in Mandarin

jué

Traditional: 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

Stroke order for 决

Examples

We haven't decided yet.

This problem needs to be solved.

His decision surprised everyone.

He made a decision.

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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This word is part of lesson 103.