to cut out (as a dress) / to cut / to trim / to reduce / to diminish / to cut back (e.g. on staff) / decision / judgment

= 𢦏 + : Things are going bad for the King of Chu (c). He opened a kitchen in the airplane (ai2), but his income in the first year was not enough so he had to donate a kidney from which the scar is widely visible (𢦏), also due to the fact that he had to sell all his clothing except for a kilt (衣) which he wears. It was not enough. One day, he actually gets fired (裁) from the airplane's king because he was costing the airplane so much money.

裁 character breakdown

clothes / CL:件[jian4] / Kangxi radical 145

= 𧘇 + : Mnemonic symbol: kilt.

= 𧘇 + : In front of the space station, Maud Younger doesn't have a wardrobe, but just a step ladder. It's still enough for her kilt though, which she can just put over the ladder so that it doesn't lose its form, and her beret, which she puts on top of the ladder.
to dress / to wear / to put on (clothes)
Character component without intrinsic meaning

𢦏 = + : Mnemonic symbol: a cut which has been sewed. Zorro (z) cut (𢦏) himself with a spear (戈) badly and sewed (𢦏) the wound himself in front of the airplane (ai1). He can now only walk with the help of a cross (十) which he uses as cane.

Characters with 裁 as component

裁 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 裁

to punish / punishment / sanctions (incl. economic)
to hit on sth new (idiom); to display originality / to adopt an original approach
Duan Yucai (1735-1815), author of Commentary on Shuowen Jiezi (1815) 說文解字註|说文解字注[Shuo1 wen2 Jie3 zi4 Zhu4]
legal sanction / prescribed punishment / punishable by law
(sports) to referee; to umpire; to officiate / referee; umpire (abbr. for 主裁判[zhu3 cai2 pan4])
(sports) referee; umpire
vice-chairman (of an organization) / vice president (of a company) / deputy governor (of a bank)

Sentences with 裁

裁 currently does not appear in any sentence.