Kanji1 / 12
裁 kanji
tailor, judge, decision, cut out (pattern)
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
サイ
Kun readings
たつさばく
Words with 裁
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —裁court
- —公裁judicial decision
- —裁可sanction; approval
- —裁許sanction; approval
- —裁断cutting (cloth, paper, etc.); judgement; judgment; decision
- —上裁imperial decision
- —勅裁imperial decision; imperial sanction; direct ruling of the Emperor (under the Meiji constitution)
- —剪裁cutting; trimming; shearing; pruning
- —和裁Japanese dressmaking; kimono making
- —半裁cutting in half
- —断裁cutting; cutting off
- —親裁matter personally decided by the emperor
- —直裁immediate ruling; immediate decision; deciding for oneself; direct ruling; direct judgement
- —自裁taking one's own life; suicide
- —原裁判original judgment; original judgement
- —裁決書written verdict
- —裁断師(tailor's) cutter
- —裁判権jurisdiction
- —裁判上judicial
- —裁判人judge