裁 — Chinese character
裁
cái
to trim, to reduce, to cut; judgment
- Pinyin
- cái
- Radical
- 145 ⾐ (Clothes)
- Strokes
- 12
- Components
- 十 戈 衣
- Formation
- ideographic — To cut 戈 cloth 衣
- Japanese
- 裁 as a kanji
Common words with 裁
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 总裁 (總裁) | zǒng cái | chairman; director-general (of a company etc) |
| 制裁 | zhì cái | to punish; punishment |
| 独裁 (獨裁) | dú cái | dictatorship |
| 裁决 (裁決) | cái jué | ruling; adjudication |
| 裁判 | cái pàn | (law) to judge; to adjudicate; verdict; judgement; (sports) to referee |
| 裁定 | cái dìng | ruling |
| 独裁者 (獨裁者) | dú cái zhě | dictator; autocrat |
| 仲裁 | zhòng cái | arbitration |
| 裁员 (裁員) | cái yuán | to cut staff; to lay off employees |
| 副总裁 (副總裁) | fù zǒng cái | vice-chairman (of an organization); vice president (of a company) |
| 裁缝 (裁縫) | cái féng | to make an item of clothing; to tailor |
| 裁缝 (裁縫) | cái feng | tailor; dressmaker |
English words written with 裁
裁 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 1
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.