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采访 (cǎi fǎng): meaning and stroke order

采访 (cǎi fǎng) means to interview, to gather news, to hunt for and collect, to cover.

采访

Simplified
采访
Traditional
採訪
Pinyin
cǎi fǎng

Stroke order of 采访

采

  • cǎi to pick; to pluck
  • cǎi color; complexion
  • cài used in 采邑[cai4 yi4] and 采地[cai4 di4]
  • 8 strokes
  • Traditional form: 採

Stroke by stroke

访

  • fǎng (bound form) to seek by inquiry; (bound form) to visit; to call on
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 訪

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 采访

  1. cǎi fǎng Traditional 採訪
    • to interview
    • to gather news
    • to hunt for and collect
    • to cover

Radicals of the characters

采
Radical 釆 (Kangxi radical 165) · 8 strokes · 爫 on top, 木 below
访
Radical 讠 (Kangxi radical 149) in its simplified form · 6 strokes · 讠 on the left, 方 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.

采访 in our stories

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  • 实习记者柯雨桐接到了第一个任务：为报纸的“城市记忆”栏目，采访一位在街角修了五十年鞋的老人。

    shíxí jìzhě Kē Yǔtóng jiēdào le dì-yī gè rènwu wèi bàozhǐ de chéngshì jìyì lánmù cǎifǎng yí wèi zài jiējiǎo xiū le wǔshí nián xié de lǎorén

    Trainee reporter Ke Yutong got her first assignment: for the paper's "City Memories" column, interview an old man who had mended shoes on a street corner for fifty years.

    From the story Old Du on the corner HSK 6

Stories using 采访

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).