Read Edit View history Discussion 决 jué HSK3 decide Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents ← Back to history approved by Peter Olson · Aug 21, 2021, 02:19 AM · Reviewed by Peter Olson on Aug 21, 2021, 02:19 AM verify Changed fields: isVerified, components, historicalPronunciations Simplified form of 決. Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 夬 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "burst open". The meaning later shifted to "clear", "cut off", "decide" and "judge". Components 冫 冫 Simplified component Shorthand for the 氵 component in the traditional character 決. 氵 is a component form of 水. 夬 夬 Sound component Change in sound 决 and 夬 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese. Historical Pronunciations Sources Readings & variants Unicode