guài
adjective

Meanings

  1. 1 decisive; resolute; the 'breakthrough' hexagram (classical)

Examples

Wǒmen jīntiān bìxū zuò juédìng.
We must make a decision today.

Tips

history
('decisive', also a hexagram of the Book of Changes) is archaic and not used independently in modern Chinese. It survives as the phonetic in (to decide), (to lack), (knack / parting), (fast), and (lump / piece).

Components

ideograph
guài
decisive; resolute
Treated as one unit. It historically pictured a hand pulling an archer's thumb-ring, the moment of release that gives the 'decisive' sense; the modern shape fused into a single graph in .

Filed under radical (dà, #37) by convention. is not a separate component in , so no strokes are highlighted.

Stroke Order

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