决议
juéyì · HSK 7
resolution
📜 决议 = 决 decide + 议 discuss = the formal decision reached after debate
决 means to decide or settle; 议 means to discuss or deliberate. Together they name the resolution a group settles on once the discussion is done, as in a council or assembly vote.
议 — speech radical 讠 (言) + 义 (yì, righteousness)
议 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The speech radical 讠 (言) signals meaning related to talking, while 义 supplies the sound 'yì'. Together they convey discussing or deliberating—literally 'speech about what is right,' which fits its modern senses of 'discuss' and 'proposal.'