HSK 6 · Verbs

撤销 chèxiāo “to cancel” in Chinese

Traditional 撤銷

What 撤销 means

  1. to cancel
  2. to revoke
  3. to repeal
  4. to rescind
  5. (computing) to undo

How to say 撤销

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale撤chè4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale销xiāo1st tone, high and level

撤销 in a sentence

  1. 亨利因为伤了手臂而被撤销了比赛资格。

    Hēnglì yīnwèi shāng le shǒubì ér bèi chèxiāo le bǐsài zīgé.

    Henry was disqualified from the competition because he’d hurt his arm.

    Sentence #818929 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 撤销 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 撤 (chè) with each of its parts in a different colour
撤chèto remove; to take away
  • 扌hand form of 手 · shǒu
  • 育to produce · yù
  • 攵tap form of 攴 · pū
The character 销 (xiāo) with each of its parts in a different colour
销xiāoto melt
  • 钅gold form of 金 · jīnMeaning part
  • 肖to resemble · xiàoSound part

钅 hints at the meaning (gold); 肖 (xiào) hints at the sound. Compare it with xiāo.

How to write 撤销

撤 15 strokes · 销 12 strokes

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

Words related to 撤销

Words with 撤

撤退chètuì · to retreat

Words with 销

销售xiāoshòu · to sell销毁xiāohuǐ · to destroy (by burning or melting)报销bàoxiāo · to claim reimbursement畅销chàngxiāo · best-selling推销tuīxiāo · to promote

More words: Common Verbs

呈现chéngxiàn · to appear陈列chénliè · to display衬托chèntuō · to set off撤退chètuì · to retreat吃苦chīkǔ · to endure hardship充当chōngdāng · to serve as重叠chóngdié · to overlap储存chǔcún · to store

FAQs

撤销 (chèxiāo) means “to cancel” or “to revoke”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it chèxiāo: chè with a 4th tone, then xiāo with a 1st 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, 撤销 is written 撤銷. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type chexiao with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 撤销 from the suggestions. Typing chexiao into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
撤销 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.