決 — 7 strokes ／ Radical「氵」
道8Elementary year 3 ／ 7 strokes ／ Radical「氵」
- On
- ケツけつ · ketsu
- Kun
- き(める)・き(まる)ki(meru) · ki(maru)
- Meaning
- decide, settle
Stroke order
Origin
水 (water) + 夬 (sound). Cutting a riverbank to decide where water flows; from there it came to mean 'to decide'.
Readings and examples
| Onケツけつketsu | 決裂けつれつ決意けつい解決かいけつ |
|---|---|
| Kunきめるkimeru | 決めるきめる取り決めとりきめ |
| Kunきまるkimaru | 決まるきまる決まりきまり |
Readings and example words from the official Jōyō kanji table.
Compounds
- 決心けっしん
determination, resolve
- 解決かいけつ
solution, settlement
- 決断けつだん
- 眥を決するまなじりをけっする
Example
行く ことに 決めた。
I decided to go.
Nearby characters
The line style shows how they connect
CompoundRadicalReading
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)