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(jì huà) - plan, scheme, project in Mandarin

huà

Traditional: 計劃

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HSK 4
#386 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

plan, scheme, project

Word origin

计划 means 'plan': 计 (jì, 'to count, to plan', with 讠the speech radical and 十 shí) plus 划 (huà, 'to delineate, to mark out'). Together: a reckoned and marked-out scheme.

Origin
compound
Root
计 (jì, to plan/reckon) + 划 (huà, to mark out)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 计

Stroke order for 划

Examples

What plans do you have?

We need to draw up a plan.

Plans cannot keep up with change.

Our plan has changed.

Please tell us your plan.

计划 (jì huà) - plan, scheme, project.

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This word is part of lesson 8.