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First opened Friday, March 1, 2013

議決

ぎけつ

  • flat (heiban)

How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).

resolution, decision, vote

JLPT N1Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)noun or participle which takes the aux. verb surutransitive verb漢語 · Sino-JapaneseCompoundBorrowing

Giketsu is from Middle Chinese 議決.

Taken apart

  1. 議

    ぎ

    deliberation

  2. 決

    けつ

    decide

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Wiktionary's text doesn't split this word, so each part is one of its kanji (with the okurigana written after it), with the reading and the dictionary meaning KANJIDIC2 gives that character — a word doesn't always use every sense of its kanji.

Written with 議決

In a sentence

  • 憲法(けんぽう)の規定(きてい)に従(したが)い衆院(しゅういん)の議決(ぎけつ)が参院(さんいん)に優越(ゆうえつ)する。

    Under the Constitution, the lower chamber's resolutions override those of the upper chamber.

    Tatoeba #76200, translation #327518

  • 理事(りじ)会(かい)は海外(かいがい)の持(も)ち株(かぶ)を放棄(ほうき)することを議決(ぎけつ)しました。

    The Board of Trustees voted to divest the organization's overseas holdings.

    Tatoeba #78378, translation #325338

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What Wiktionary says

Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.

  • “From Middle Chinese 議決 (ngjeᴴ kwet).”

Source: Wiktionary: 議決 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).

What the labels mean

漢語 Sino-Japanese
Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.
Compound
Two or more words or stems joined into one.
Borrowing
Taken over from another language.

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Also opened on March 1

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