HSK 6 · Work

策划 cèhuà “to plan” in Chinese

Traditional 策劃

What 策划 means

  1. to plan
  2. to organise
  3. to scheme
  4. to plot
  5. to bring about
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • to engineer
  • planning
  • producer

How to say 策划

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale策cè4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale划huà4th tone, falling

策划 in a sentence

  1. 他在策划部工作。

    Tā zài cèhuà bù gōngzuò.

    He works in the planning department.

    Sentence #1192611 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 策划 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 策 (cè) with each of its parts in a different colour
策cèpolicy
  • ⺮bamboo form of 竹 · zhúMeaning part
  • 朿thorn · cìSound part

⺮ hints at the meaning (bamboo); 朿 (cì) hints at the sound. Compare it with cè.

The character 划 (huà) with each of its parts in a different colour
划huàto delimit
  • 戈halberd · gē
  • 刂knife form of 刀 · dāo

How to write 策划

策 12 strokes · 划 6 strokes

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策划 (cèhuà) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 策划 (cèhuà). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 策划

Words with 策

鞭策biāncè · to spur on决策juécè · to make a policy decision政策zhèngcè · policy策略cèlüè · strategy对策duìcè · countermeasure

Words with 划

计划jìhuà · plan划huá · to row划分huàfēn · to divide规划guīhuà · plan

More words: Work & Career

备忘录bèiwànglù · memorandum才干cáigàn · ability裁员cáiyuán · to cut staff操劳cāoláo · to work hard承办chéngbàn · to undertake承包chéngbāo · to contract筹备chóubèi · to prepare创立chuànglì · to found

FAQs

策划 (cèhuà) means “to plan” or “to organise”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it cèhuà: cè with a 4th tone, then huà with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 策划 is written 策劃. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type cehua with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 策划 from the suggestions. Typing cehua into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
策划 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.