Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 3

JLPT level: N3

71 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 7

Meaning: decide, fix, agree upon, appoint

Kunyomi: き.める -ぎ.め き.まる さ.く

Onyomi: ケツ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: さんずい

Meaning: water

Strokes: 3

Examples

Examples with audio

定する(けっていする)   decide

心する(けっしんする)   resolve to do something

する(かいけつする)   solve

断する(けつだんする)   make a decision

(はんけつ)   judicial decision

勝戦(けっしょうせん)   final game of a tournament

して(けっして)   never

める(きめる)   decide [v.t.]

まる(きまる)   be decided [v.i.]

Onyomi Examples

ケツ decision, vote

ケツイ decision, determination, resolution

ヒョウケツ vote, voting

強行採 キョウコウサイケツ forced passage of a bill, steamroller voting, steamrollering

Kunyomi Examples

める きめる to decide, to choose, to determine, to make up one's mind, to resolve, to set one's heart on, to settle, to arrange, to set, to appoint, to fix, to clinch (a victory), to decide (the outcome of a match), to persist in doing, to go through with, to always do, to have made a habit of, to take for granted, to assume, to dress up, to dress to kill, to dress to the nines, to carry out successfully (a move in sports, a pose in dance, etc.), to succeed in doing, to immobilize with a double-arm lock (in sumo, judo, etc.), to eat or drink something, to take illegal drugs

まる きまる to be decided, to be settled, to be fixed, to be arranged, to be unchanging, to be the same (as always), to be fixed, to be set, to be a fixed rule, to be destined, to be a convention, to be a custom, to be common knowledge, to be well executed (of a manoeuvre in a sport, game, etc.), to go well, to succeed, to connect (of a punch), to look good (of clothing), to look sharp, to be stylish, to suit one, to be held in place (of a hairdo), to be struck and held (of a pose in kabuki)

しゃくる to dig out, to gouge out, to hollow out, to scoop, to ladle, to bail, to jerk (one's chin)