引決

引決

Chinese

		to incur, to cause	decision, judgment
trad. (引決)		引	決
simp. (引决)		引	决
Literally: “to settle the matter”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yǐnjué

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄣˇ ㄐㄩㄝˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: yǐnjué
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄣˇ ㄐㄩㄝˊ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yyinjyue
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yǐnjyué
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /in²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ t͡ɕɥɛ³⁵/

Verb

引決

1. (literary) to kill oneself; to die by suicide

   及罪至罔加，不能引決自裁，在塵埃之中，古今一體，安在其不辱也。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
   及罪至罔加，不能引决自裁，在尘埃之中，古今一体，安在其不辱也。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

   From: Sima Qian, Letter to Ren An. 1st century BCE. Translated by Burton Watson.

   Jí zuì zhì wǎng jiā, bùnéng yǐnjué zìcái, zài chén'āi zhīzhōng, gǔjīn yī tǐ, ān zài qí bù rǔ yě. [Pinyin]

   But when they were accused of crimes and sentences were passed on them, there were not one who could settle the matter with his own hands by committing suicide. In the dust and filth of bondage, it has ever been the same, past and present.