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划

huá · hua/huà · hua

Traditional 劃

HSK 4

Meaning

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huá 划

  1. to row
  2. to paddle
  3. profitable
  4. worth (the effort)
  5. it pays (to do sth)

huá 劃

  1. to cut
  2. to slash
  3. to scratch (cut into the surface of sth)
  4. to strike (a match)

huà 劃

  1. to delimit
  2. to transfer
  3. to assign
  4. to plan
  5. to draw (a line)
  6. stroke of a Chinese character
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In a conversation

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  1. Liangliang

    我们(wǒmen)去(qù)划船(huáchuán)吧(ba)！

    Let's go rowing!

  2. Dengdeng

    好(hǎo)，我(wǒ)来(lái)划(huá)，你(nǐ)拍照(pāizhào)。

    Okay. I will row and you take photos.

  3. Liangliang

    你(nǐ)划(huá)得(de)太(tài)慢(màn)了(le)。

    You are rowing too slowly.

  4. Dengdeng

    那(nà)你(nǐ)来(lái)划(huá)试试(shìshì)！

    Then you try rowing!

  5. Liangliang

    好(hǎo)……哎(āi)，船(chuán)怎么(zěnme)转圈(zhuànquān)了(le)？

    Okay... hey, why is the boat spinning?

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In a sentence

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01

我(wǒ)的(de)姓(xìng)、名(míng)一(yí)共(gòng)有(yǒu)五(wǔ)十(shí)划(huà)，写(xiě)起(qǐ)来(lái)麻(má)烦(fan)得(de)很(hěn)。

It's a lot of trouble to write my name, because it takes 50 strokes to write both my first and last names.

Tatoeba: Chinese by nickyeow · English by CS · CC BY 2.0 FR. Simplified Chinese conversion; Pinyin added or corrected.

02

我(wǒ)们(men)划(huá)船(chuán)到(dào)湖(hú)中(zhōng)央(yāng)去(qù)了(le)。

We rowed the boat to the middle of the lake.

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