劃 (waak6 | hua4 hua2) : divide; plan

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劃

waak6

hua4 hua2

[粵] waak6 | [國] hua4
[1] [v] divide; delimit; demarcate
[2] [v] plan; deliberate; design
[3] [v] assign; transfer; set aside
[4] [n] stroke (of a Chinese character)

[粵] waak6 | [國] hua2
[v] scratch; strike; cut the surface of

划 is also a traditional character with different pronunciations and meanings.

Default PoS:

Additional PoS:

Stroke count: 14

Level: 2

Radical: 刀 (#18)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

劃 / 划

This word has been viewed 11238 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 22nd May 2011 09:29

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計劃 gai3 waak6 ji4 hua4 = plan; programme; map out

策劃 caak3 waak6 ce4 hua4 = to plot; to scheme; to engineer; to bring about

突擊計劃 dat6 gik1 gai3 waak6 tu2 ji2 ji4 hua4 (Taiwan), tu1 ji1 ji4 hua4 (PRC) = crash-programme; crash-course

劃分 waak6 fan1 hua4 fen1 = to divide

規劃 kwai1 waak6 gui1 hua4 = plan, program

劃火柴 waak6 fo2 caai4/4*2 = to strike a match

五年計劃 ng5 nin4 gai3 waak6 wu3 nian2 ji4 hua4 = Five-Year Plan

具體計劃 geoi6 tai2 gai3 waak6 ju4 ti3 ji4 hua4 = a concrete plan; a definite plan

按照計劃 on3 ziu3 gai3 waak6 an4 zhao4 ji4 hua4 = according to (the) plan ...

規劃人員 kwai1 waak6 jan4 jyun4 gui1 hua4 ren2 yuan2 = planner
See all 65 compounds (CantoDict reports 66 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

Showing 1 example containing 劃

呢個復活節係咪去北海道滑雪,重係十劃都未有一撇。粵
It's still far too early to tell if we are going skiing in Hokkaido this Easter.
[In this sentence, the third character 都 in the idiom 十劃都未有一撇 could be moved three spaces up so that the latter half of the sentence would become 都重係十劃未有一撇. The meaning would remain the same. ]

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Decimal representation of this word: 劃
Unicode code for this character: U+5283 (off-site link)

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