Kilo Lingo

(huà) - to plan; to row (a boat) in Mandarin

huà

Traditional: 划

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Translation

to plan; to row (a boat)

Word origin

A phono-semantic character: the knife radical 刂gives a sense of cutting or marking out, used for to plan and to row a boat.

Origin
phono-semantic
Root
刂 (knife radical) + phonetic element

Stroke order

Stroke order for 划

Examples

We have a plan.

What is your plan?

This plan is great.

Please underline the key points.

quān

He drew a circle with his pen.

划 (huà) means to plan; in the reading huá it means to row. The common compound is 计划 (jìhuà), a plan.

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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 划.

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This word is part of lesson 104.