决定決定 in English

Measure word

• 个 gè (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual attested
• 项 xiàng back of neck; item; thing; term (in a mathematical formula); sum (of money); classifier for principles, items, clauses... attested

Character breakdown

• 决決 jué to decide
• 定 dìng to fix

Stroke order

How it used to be written

决

These are the forms of 決, the traditional character: 决 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

• Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 8 forms

定

• Oracle bone script 商
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 16 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• 不决定本身就是一个决定。

  Not choosing is choosing already.

• 买不买由你决定。

  It is up to you whether to buy it or not.

• 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.

• 他们决定选他为总统。

  They decided to choose him to be president.

• 他决定不买那个房子了，首先是因为太贵了，其实是因为离他的办公室太远了。

  He decided not to buy the house, because in the first place it was too expensive, and in the second place it was too far from his office.

• 他决定了要当医生。

  He made up his mind to be a doctor.

• 他在要结婚之际决定还是不结婚了。

  Shortly before his wedding, he decided not to get married.

All example sentences with 决定