created sense approved 立决/立決 · lìjué · to execute summarily — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
立决 / 立決
lìjué
to execute summarily
To sentence and carry out an execution immediately; historically used in legal terms such as [[斩立决|斬立決|zhan3 li4 jue2]] to denote an immediate death sentence that was not delayed until the annual autumn review.
立 (literal) → 立 · lì · immediately 决 (literal) → 决/決 · jué · to execute
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition