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Mythic Mandarin

安排 (ān pái): meaning and stroke order

安排 (ān pái) means to arrange, to plan, to set up, arrangements, plans.

安排

Simplified
安排
Traditional
安排 (same form)
Pinyin
ān pái

Stroke order of 安排

安

  • Ān surname An
  • ān (bound form) calm; peaceful; to calm; to set at ease
  • 6 strokes

Stroke by stroke

排

  • pái a row; a line
  • 11 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 安排

  1. ān pái
    • to arrange
    • to plan
    • to set up
    • arrangements
    • plans

Radicals of the characters

安
Radical 宀 (Kangxi radical 40) · 6 strokes · 宀 on top, 女 below
排
Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 11 strokes · 扌 on the left, 非 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

安排 in our stories

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  • 老郝愣了一下。三年的订单意味着工厂可以提前安排生产，可以用更低的价格批量采购原材料。

    lǎo Hǎo lèng le yíxià sān nián de dìngdān yìwèizhe gōngchǎng kěyǐ tíqián ānpái shēngchǎn kěyǐ yòng gèng dī de jiàgé pīliàng cǎigòu yuáncáiliào

    Old Hao paused. A three-year order meant the factory could plan production in advance and buy raw materials in bulk at lower prices.

    From the story A minute of silence HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 安排

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).