IDENTITY
决juéto decide; determined
HSK 4Top 350
CORE MEANING
to decide; determined
- Part of speech
- verb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.to decideHSK4
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 冫ice radical (bīng)
- strokes
- 6
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰冫夬
- ice (breaking it)
- gives the sound jué
USAGE
Common words
决定juédìngto decide
解决jiějuéto solve
决心juéxīndetermination
Graded examples
他决定留在北京。Tā juédìng liú zài Běijīng.HSK4
He decided to stay in Beijing.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
LEARNING
Memory aid
Ice (冫) cracked open (夬) — the break that decides. (From 決.)
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #350
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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