Chinese symbol for “officiate”

主裁

zhǔ cái

(sports) to referee; to umpire; to officiate; referee; umpire (abbr. for 主裁判 (zhǔ cái pàn))

The closest CC-CEDICT match for officiate is 主裁 (zhǔ cái), defined as: (sports) to referee; to umpire; to officiate; referee; umpire (abbr. for 主裁判 (zhǔ cái pàn)).

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Characters and stroke order

主 zhǔ

to own; to host; master; host; lord

radical 3 ⼂ · 5 strokes

裁 cái

to trim, to reduce, to cut; judgment

radical 145 ⾐ · 12 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 主裁.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
主要	zhǔ yào	main; principal; major; primary
民主	mín zhǔ	democracy; democratic
主席	zhǔ xí	chairperson; premier
主任	zhǔ rèn	director; head
主题 (主題)	zhǔ tí	theme; subject
主张 (主張)	zhǔ zhāng	to advocate; to stand for
总裁 (總裁)	zǒng cái	chairman; director-general (of a company etc)
制裁	zhì cái	to punish; punishment

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.