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Mythic Mandarin

出差 (chū chāi): meaning and stroke order

出差 (chū chāi) means to go on an official or business trip.

出差

Simplified
出差
Traditional
出差 (same form)
Pinyin
chū chāi

Stroke order of 出差

出

  • chū to go out; to come out; to arise; to occur
  • chū variant of 出[chu1] (classifier for plays or chapters of classical novels)
  • 5 strokes
  • Traditional form: 齣

Stroke by stroke

差

  • chā difference; discrepancy; (math.) difference (amount remaining after a subtraction)
  • chà different; wrong; mistaken
  • chāi to send (on an errand); (archaic) person sent on such an errand
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 出差

  1. chū chāi
    • to go on an official or business trip

Radicals of the characters

出
Radical 凵 (Kangxi radical 17) · 5 strokes · 屮 on top, 凵 below
差
Radical 工 (Kangxi radical 48) · 10 strokes

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.

出差 in our stories

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  • 孟凯第一次一个人出差，公司派他去广州跟一家大客户谈合作。

    Mèng Kǎi dì-yī cì yí gè rén chūchāi gōngsī pài tā qù Guǎngzhōu gēn yì jiā dà kèhù tán hézuò

    Meng Kai was on his first business trip alone: the company had sent him to Guangzhou to discuss working with a big client.

    From the story Three circles HSK 4

Stories using 出差

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).