决決 in English
- to decide / to determine / to execute (sb) / (of a dam etc) to breach or burst / definitely / certainly
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 決, the traditional character: 决 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 8 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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“爸爸，这是真的剑吗？”“当然，毕竟这是一场对决。”
"Dad, this a real sword?" "Of course, it is a duel after all."
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一定有解决的办法。
There must be some way to solve this.
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不决定本身就是一个决定。
Not choosing is choosing already.
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不管这个问题重不重要，你必须解决它。
No matter how important the question may or may not be, you must solve it.
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为了解决问题，他们尽了很大努力。
They made a great effort to settle the problem.
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买不买由你决定。
It is up to you whether to buy it or not.
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他也不想洗碗，她也不想洗碗，所以他们决定出去吃。
Neither he nor she wants to do the dishes, and so the two of them decided to eat out.
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他们决定选他为总统。
They decided to choose him to be president.