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決

決

See also: 决

Translingual

Han character

決 (radical 85 水+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 水木大 (EDK), four-corner 35130, composition ⿰氵夬)

  1. decide, determine, judge

References

  • KangXi: page 609, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17174
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1001, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1574, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+6C7A

Chinese

trad. 決
simp. 决

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 決
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (夬) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
袂 *mɡʷeds
夬 *kʷraːds
快 *kʰʷraːds
駃 *kʰʷraːds, *kʷeːd
筷 *kʰʷraːds
炔 *kʷeːds
觖 *kʰʷeds, *kʷeːd
缺 *kʰʷed, *kʰʷeːd
蒛 *kʰʷed
吷 *qʰʷed
妜 *qʷed, *qʷeːd
決 *kʷeːd, *qʰʷeːd
訣 *kʷeːd
抉 *kʷeːd, *qʷeːd
玦 *kʷeːd
芵 *kʷeːd
赽 *kʷeːd
鴂 *kʷeːd
鈌 *kʷeːd
决 *kʷeːd
疦 *kʷeːd, *qʰʷeːd
蚗 *kʷeːd
趹 *kʷeːd

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 決
Mandarin Beijing /t͡ɕyɛ³⁵/
Harbin /t͡ɕyɛ²⁴/
Tianjin /t͡ɕye⁴⁵/
Jinan /t͡ɕyə²¹³/
Qingdao /t͡ɕyə⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /t͡ɕyɛ²⁴/
Xi'an /t͡ɕyɛ²¹/
Xining /t͡ɕyu⁵³/
Yinchuan /t͡ɕye¹³/
Lanzhou /t͡ɕyə⁵³/
Ürümqi /t͡ɕyɤ⁵¹/
Wuhan /t͡ɕye²¹³/
Chengdu /t͡ɕye³¹/
Guiyang /t͡ɕie²¹/
Kunming /t͡ɕiɛ³¹/
Nanjing /t͡ɕyeʔ⁵/
Hefei /t͡ɕyɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡ɕyəʔ²/
Pingyao /t͡ɕyʌʔ⁵³/
Hohhot /t͡ɕyaʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /t͡ɕioʔ⁵/
/t͡ɕyɪʔ⁵/
Suzhou /t͡ɕyəʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /t͡sz̩ʷəʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /t͡ɕy²¹³/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕyeʔ²¹/
Tunxi /t͡ɕyɛ⁵/
Xiang Changsha /t͡ɕye²⁴/
Xiangtan /t͡ɕyæ²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /t͡ɕyeʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /kiat̚¹/
Taoyuan /kiet̚²²/
Cantonese Guangzhou /kʰyt̚³/
Nanning /kʰyt̚³³/
Hong Kong /kʰyt̚³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /kuat̚³²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /kyɔʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /kyɛ²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /kuak̚²/
Haikou (Min Nan) /kit̚⁵/
Rime
Character 決 決
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 曉 (32) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 屑 (88) 屑 (88)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) IV IV
Fanqie 呼決切 古穴切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /hwet̚/ /kwet̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /hʷet̚/ /kʷet̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /xuɛt̚/ /kuɛt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /hwɛt̚/ /kwɛt̚/
Li
Rong		 /xuet̚/ /kuet̚/
Wang
Li		 /xiwet̚/ /kiwet̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /xiwet̚/ /kiwet̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xue jue
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 決 決
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jué jué
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kwet › ‹ kwet ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[k]ʷˤet/ /*[k]ʷˤet/
English open a passage for a stream open; decide

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 決 決
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 4416 4432
Phonetic
component		 夬 夬
Rime
group		 月 月
Rime
subdivision		 2 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 玦 血
Old
Chinese		 /*kʷeːd/ /*qʰʷeːd/

Definitions

決

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References

Japanese

Kanji

決

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. decision, determination

Readings

Compounds

Derived terms

Korean

Hanja

決 • ‎(gyeol) (hangeul 결, revised gyeol, McCune-Reischauer kyŏl, Yale kyel)

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Vietnamese

Han character

決 (quyết)

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