裁 cái
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 衣 — cloth
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
裁
cái
to cut; to reduce; to dismiss staff
Character
Example phrases
- 这家店生意不好，只好裁掉两个服务员。 Zhè jiā diàn shēngyi bù hǎo, zhǐhǎo cái diào liǎng ge fúwùyuán. Business is poor at this shop, so it had to let two waiters go.
- 妈妈用剪刀把布裁成两块。 Māma yòng jiǎndāo bǎ bù cái chéng liǎng kuài. Mum used scissors to cut the cloth into two pieces.
- 他把一张大纸裁成了整齐的小方块。 Tā bǎ yì zhāng dà zhǐ cái chéng le zhěngqí de xiǎo fāngkuài. He cut a large sheet of paper into neat little squares.
Related words
- 裁判 cáipàn referee
- 总裁 zǒngcái chief executive officer
- 裁定 cáidìng to rule; to adjudicate; ruling
- 裁缝 cáifeng tailor
- 裁决 cáijué to adjudicate; to rule; ruling
- 裁员 cáiyuán to lay off staff; to cut personnel
- 体裁 tǐcái genre; literary form
- 制裁 zhìcái to sanction; sanctions
- 仲裁 zhòngcái to arbitrate; arbitration
- 掰 bāi to break off with the hands; to bend apart
- 编织 biānzhī to weave; to knit; to construct
- 糊 hú to paste; to plaster; to stick on