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Chinese symbol for “adjudication”

裁决
cái jué
Traditional: 裁決
ruling; adjudication

The closest CC-CEDICT match for adjudication is 裁决 (cái jué), defined as: ruling; adjudication.

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Characters and stroke order

裁 cái
to trim, to reduce, to cut; judgment
radical 145 ⾐ · 12 strokes
决 jué
to decide, to determine, to judge
radical 15 ⼎ · 6 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 裁决.

WordPinyinMeaning
总裁 (總裁)zǒng cáichairman; director-general (of a company etc)
制裁zhì cáito punish; punishment
独裁 (獨裁)dú cáidictatorship
裁判cái pàn(law) to judge; to adjudicate; verdict; judgement; (sports) to referee
裁定cái dìngruling
决定 (決定)jué dìngto decide; to determine; to make up one's mind; decision (个 (gè),项 (xiàng))
解决 (解決)jiě juéto solve; to resolve; to settle (a problem); to eliminate; to wipe out (an enemy, bandits etc)
决议 (決議)jué yìa resolution; to pass a resolution

See also: Japanese symbol for “adjudication”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.