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Kanji Detail for 委 - "entrust, delegate, graceful"
委
- Meaning
委 means "entrust, delegate, graceful."
To entrust - To leave to others; to delegate.
Detailed - Minute; thorough; in full.
To abandon - To leave behind; to neglect.
Graceful - Movements that are relaxed and beautiful.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
committee; entrust to; leave to; devote; discard
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
appoint, send, commission
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
surname Wei
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
to appoint, to commission, to send
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
To entrust; to assign. Such as 委任, 委託. All terms from superior to subordinate. | To accumulate. Piled-up documents are called 填委, meaning heaped up. | To abandon. (Mencius) "Abandoning and leaving it." | The source is called 原; the end is called 委. Hence explaining something from beginning to end is called 窮源竟委. | Has a meaning of certainty. Such as 委係. | Graceful and self-possessed appearance. Such as 委蛇, 委佗. Both in (Book of Odes). | To follow; to bend. Such as 委曲, 委屈. All meaning to comply accommodatingly.
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Sentences including 委
Are you sure you want to put your life in her hands?
The committee are all against it.
The committee are all for the plan.
The committee are all present.
The committee has something to do with this plan.
The question is before the committee.