裁 (cái)
to cut (paper/cloth); to sanction; to reduce (staff); to judge
How 裁 is written
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 土 — earth
- Traditional
- 裁
- Simplified
- 裁 (unchanged)
Common words using 裁
- 剪裁 jiǎncái
- to tailor (clothes); to trim (expenditure)
- 總裁 zǒngcái
- chairman; director-general (of a company etc)
- 裁判 cáipàn
- judgment; to referee; umpire
- 別出心裁 biéchūxīncái
- to hit on sth new (idiom); to display originality; to adopt an original approach
- 制裁 zhìcái
- to punish; punishment; sanctions (incl. economic)
- 副總裁 fùzǒngcái
- vice-chairman; deputy director (of a company etc)
- 獨裁 dúcái
- dictatorship
- 獨裁者 dúcáizhě
- dictator; autocrat
- 裁剪 cáijiǎn
- to cut out
- 裁員 cáiyuán
- to cut staff; to lay off employees
- 裁定 cáidìng
- ruling
- 裁決 cáijué
- ruling; adjudication
裁 in a sentence
因為經濟不景氣，公司決定裁員。
Yīnwèi jīngjì bù jǐngqì, gōngsī juédìng cáiyuán.
“Because of the economic downturn, the company decided to lay off staff.”
How common is 裁?
裁 is the 1,201st most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 91.9% of all running text.
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