HSK 6 · Society

查获 cháhuò “to seize (in an investigation)” in Chinese

Traditional 查獲

What 查获 means

  1. to seize (in an investigation)
  2. to track down
  3. to track down and seize (a criminal suspect, contraband etc)

How to say 查获

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale查chá2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale获huò4th tone, falling

查获 in a sentence

  1. 海关查获了一批假名牌包。

    Hǎiguān cháhuò le yì pī jiǎ míngpái bāo.

    Customs seized a batch of fake designer bags.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 警察查获了被偷的汽车。

    Jǐngchá cháhuò le bèi tōu de qìchē.

    The police tracked down the stolen car.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 查获 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 查 (chá) with each of its parts in a different colour
查cháto research
  • 木tree · mù
  • 旦dawn · dàn
The character 获 (huò) with each of its parts in a different colour
获huòto catch; to capture
  • 艹grass form of 艸 · cǎo
  • 犾part of the character

How to write 查获

查 9 strokes · 获 10 strokes

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

Words related to 查获

Words with 查

查chá · to check检查jiǎnchá · to check调查diàochá · investigation审查shěnchá · to examine

Words with 获

获得huòdé · to obtain收获shōuhuò · harvest

More words: Society & Law

表决biǎojué · to vote表彰biǎozhāng · to commend剥削bōxuē · to exploit草案cǎo'àn · draft (of a law or plan)潮流cháoliú · trend惩罚chéngfá · to punish称号chēnghào · title成员chéngyuán · member

FAQs

查获 (cháhuò) means “to seize (in an investigation)” or “to track down”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it cháhuò: chá with a 2nd tone, then huò 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, 查获 is written 查獲. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type chahuo with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 查获 from the suggestions. Typing chahuo into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
查获 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 written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.