裁
cái HSK5

cut out

裁 cái
cut verb
to cut out or trim materials such as cloth or paper

她在给新裙子裁料子。

tā zài gěi xīn qún​zi cái liào​zi.

She is cutting the fabric for a new skirt.

reduce verb
to diminish, scale down, or cut back, especially regarding staff

为了节省开支，公司今年裁了不少冗余人员。

wèi​le jié​shěng kāi​zhī, gōng​sī jīn​nián cái le bù​shǎo rǒng​yú rén​yuán.

To cut costs, the company laid off a lot of redundant staff this year.

judge noun
to make a formal decision, judgment, or ruling

裁判根据规则做出了公正的裁决。

cái pàn gēn​jù guī​zé zuò​chū le gōng​zhèng de cái​jué.

The referee made a fair ruling based on the rules.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,203rd most common 113.3 per million
Movie subtitles
1,510th most common 42.1 per million appears in 16% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
3.43 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
10.1 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Strokes
12
Unicode
U+88C1

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)