Chinese symbol for “ruling”
裁决
cái jué
Traditional: 裁決
ruling; adjudication
The closest CC-CEDICT match for ruling is 裁决 (cái jué), defined as: ruling; adjudication.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “ruling”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 裁决.
| 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 |
| 裁判 | cái pàn | (law) to judge; to adjudicate; verdict; judgement; (sports) to referee |
| 裁定 | cái dìng | ruling |
| 决定 (決定) | jué dìng | to decide; to determine; to make up one's mind; decision (个 (gè),项 (xiàng)) |
| 解决 (解決) | jiě jué | to solve; to resolve; to settle (a problem); to eliminate; to wipe out (an enemy, bandits etc) |
| 决议 (決議) | jué yì | a resolution; to pass a resolution |
See also: Japanese symbol for “ruling”.
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.