HSK 6 · Work

执行 zhíxíng “to carry out” in Chinese

Traditional 執行

What 执行 means

  1. to carry out
  2. to implement
  3. to execute
  4. to run

How to say 执行

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale执zhí2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale行xíng2nd tone, rising

执行 in a sentence

  1. 我们必须执行他的命令。

    Wǒmen bìxū zhíxíng tā de mìnglìng.

    We must carry out his orders.

    Sentence #8800301 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 你执行你的计划了吗？

    Nǐ zhíxíng nǐ de jìhuà le ma?

    Did you carry out your plan?

    Sentence #818323 from Tatoeba

  3. 关于这个产品，我公司将执行新的价格标准。

    Guānyú zhè ge chǎnpǐn, wǒ gōngsī jiāng zhíxíng xīn de jiàgé biāozhǔn.

    Our company will implement new pricing standards for this product.

    Sentence #2482670 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 执行 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 执 (zhí) with each of its parts in a different colour
执zhíto execute
  • 扌hand form of 手 · shǒu
  • 丸ball · wán
The character 行 (háng) with each of its parts in a different colour
行xíngto walk; to go; to travel
  • 彳step · chì
  • 亍to take small steps · chù

Memory aidDrawn from a crossroads: to walk, to go. It also means a row or line (háng).

How to write 执行

执 6 strokes · 行 6 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

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

Words related to 执行

Words with 执

执照zhízhào · licence固执gùzhí · stubborn执着zhízhuó · persistent

Words with 行

银行yínháng · bank不行bùxíng · won’t do行李xíngli · luggage行李箱xínglǐxiāng · trunk自行车zìxíngchē · bike银行卡yínhángkǎ · bank card行xíng · OK进行jìnxíng · to advance流行liúxíng · popular举行jǔxíng · to hold (a meeting

More words: Work & Career

致力zhìlì · to devote oneself to职能zhínéng · function职位zhíwèi · position职务zhíwù · post专长zhuāncháng · speciality主办zhǔbàn · to host主管zhǔguǎn · person in charge助理zhùlǐ · assistant

FAQs

执行 (zhíxíng) means “to carry out” or “to implement”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it zhíxíng: zhí with a 2nd tone, then xíng with a 2nd 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, 执行 is written 執行. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zhixing with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 执行 from the suggestions. Typing zhixing into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
执行 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.