規定 (きてい, kitei) Japanese meaning: stipulation | Kotomora

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規定する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'

Meanings

General term for a rule, regulation, or provision set by an authority or agreement. Used in legal, organizational, and everyday contexts.

規き則そくN4sense 1
規則 refers to a concrete, specific rule or code (like a school or company code), while 規定 is a broader term for a stipulation or provision within a larger system.
条じょう項こう sense 1
条項 is a specific clause or article within a document, whereas 規定 can refer to the whole provision or rule itself.
規き約やくN1sense 1
規約 is a set of agreed-upon rules or bylaws (often for an organization or contract), while 規定 is a more general term for any stipulated provision.
明めい文ぶん化か
規定 is the general term for an established rule or provision, while 明文化 highlights the specific act of writing that rule down explicitly.

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所しょ定ていN1
規定 refers to the actual rule or regulation itself, while 所定 describes something as being in accordance with such a rule.
うたうN1
規定する is the neutral legal term for stipulating a rule, while 謳う adds a rhetorical or emphatic tone to the same act of declaring something in a document.
条じょう文ぶん
規定 focuses on the rule or stipulation itself, whereas 条文 emphasizes the actual written wording of that rule.
内ない規き
規定 refers to specific provisions or stipulations within a rule or law, while 内規 refers to the whole body of an organization's private rules.

規き程てい sense 1
規程 (same reading) refers to a formal set of rules or procedures established by an organization, while 規定 is a broader term for any stipulation or provision.
既き定てい sense 1
既定 (same reading) means 'already decided' or 'predetermined', unlike 規定 which means a rule or stipulation.
制せい定ていN1
規定 refers to a specific provision or rule within a law, while 制定 is the act of enacting the law itself, despite sharing the kanji 定.

From 規 (standard, rule) and 定 (decide, fix). The combination has been used since classical Chinese to mean 'to fix a standard' or 'regulation'.