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決める

きめる

to decide

Mnemonic

Kim きめ picks the time for the meeting and after that everybody else's day pours into the channel she cut: きめる.

Worth knowing

決まる きまる is it being decided; 決める is somebody deciding it.

Built from

decide
氵 water on the left. Cut a channel and it only runs one way after that.

Words sharing these kanji

to be decided, to be set never, by no means solution, settlement decision, resolution

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