兑

duì

Exchange; match; fulfill; cash.

Meaning

Exchange and Correspondence: Describes two things meeting or matching. Includes the literal swapping of objects, the fulfillment of a promise, debt, or obligation, and correspondence in dialogue (fitting responses).
Cosmological/Divinatory: Associated with the "Lake" trigram. In these contexts, it denotes joy/pleasure, the act of opening (such as a gate, a flower blooming, or a mouth speaking), and by extension, communication.
Commercial/Administrative: Refers to currency (cash) and the process of trading or settling accounts.

Transitive: To exchange [A] for [B]; to fulfill [a promise/debt].
Intransitive/Stative: To be in accord; to match or correspond.
Resultative: Used in administrative contexts to mark the completion of a transaction (the "settling" of an account).

兑 vs. 交 (jiāo): 兑 emphasizes fulfillment and matching; 交 emphasizes intersection, mutual crossing, or the social connection formed.
兑 vs. 換 (huàn): 換 focuses on replacement or changing one thing into another; 兑 is more closely tied to correspondence and settlement.

Decontextualized translator aid. This page describes plausible lexical range; it does not choose what the glyph means in a particular passage.