Taxonomy of meanings for 裁:　　

  • 裁 cái (OC: sɡɯɯ MC: dzəi) 昨哉切 平 廣韻：【裁衣昨哉切九 】
    • SEW
      • vtoNsew
      • vtoNfigurativestitch together a textCH
      • nabfigurativemethod: way of "sewing" a text togetherCH
      • related action>CUT
        • vtoNcarve into pieces, cut up; to tailor
        • vtoNpassiveget cut up
      • generalised: physical>ARRANGE
          • abstract>CONTROL
            • vtoNcontrol and regulate effectively
            • standard followed>>>MODEL
              • causative>>>TEACH
                • generalised>FIX
                  • vtoNdefine and apportion (guilt), give proper shape to
                • administrative>DECIDE
                  • vtoNdecide on, pass judgement on
                • intellectual>DISTINGUISH
                  • judicial>JUDGE
                • generalised>CREATE
                • MEASURING UNIT
                • =纔THEN
                  • =纔ONLY
                    • =材TALENT
                    • 裁 zài (OC: sɡɯɯs MC: dzəi) 昨代切 去 廣韻：【製裁 】
                      • CONTROL
                        • vtoNcontrol and regulate effectively
                    • cáiKILL
                      • vtoNreflexive.自kill (onself)
                    • cáiSTYLE
                      • nabliterary styleCH

                    Additional information about 裁

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                    • SUICIDE

                      1. The general term for suicide is zì shā 自殺, and 殺己 is hardly ever used for suicide.

                      2. Zì cǎi 自裁 refers to suicide by cutting oneself in some way or other.

                      3. Zì jìn 自盡 is politely periphrastic and refers to putting an end to one's life in any way.

                      4. Zì wěn 自刎 refers to a dramatic act of cutting one's own throat.

                      5. Zì jīng 自經 refers to suicide by strangling oneself.

                      6. Zì chén 自沉 refers to suicide by drowning.

                      7. Sǐ 死 is often used causatively and reflexively to refer to an act of suicide.

                    • DECIDE

                      1. The most common general word for making a decision is duàn 斷, which emphasis the definitiveness of what has been decided on, but speaks of the process by which that final decision is being reached rather than the result as such.

                      2. Jué 決 focusses on the the result as such, and the word can be used about decisons already made where duàn 斷 seems excluded. ( 事已決 not: 事已斷矣 )

                      3. Dìng 定 refers to the fixing something not only for oneself but primarily for others. See FIX

                      4. Cái 裁 refers to the action of making a public decision as taken by a person in authority.

                    • FIX

                      1. The current general word for fixing something in any objective and interpersonal way, concrete or abstract is dìng 定.

                      2. Cái 裁 refers specifically to the proper apportioning of things.

                      3. Bì 必 refers to fixing and determining something with supreme assurance and definiteness.

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