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检查 (jiǎn chá): meaning and stroke order

检查 (jiǎn chá) means inspection, to examine, to inspect, CL:次.

检查

Simplified
检查
Traditional
檢查
Pinyin
jiǎn chá

Stroke order of 检查

检

  • jiǎn to check; to examine
  • 11 strokes
  • Traditional form: 檢

Stroke by stroke

查

  • Zhā surname Zha
  • chá to research; to check
  • zhā variant of 楂[zha1]
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 检查

  1. jiǎn chá Traditional 檢查
    • inspection
    • to examine
    • to inspect
    • CL:次[ci4]

Radicals of the characters

检
Radical 木 (Kangxi radical 75) · 11 strokes · 木 on the left, 佥 on the right
查
Radical 木 (Kangxi radical 75) · 9 strokes · 木 on top, 旦 below

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.

检查 in our stories

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  • 妻子看不下去，硬拉着他去医院做了全面检查。

    qīzi kàn bú xiàqu yìng lā zhe tā qù yīyuàn zuò le quánmiàn jiǎnchá

    His wife couldn't stand it and dragged him to hospital for a full check-up.

    From the story The bow's reflection in the cup HSK 7–9 · Level 7

  • 负责查案的官员仔细检查了伤口：伤口又宽又浅，边缘不整齐，不像刀砍的，倒像是镰刀割的。

    fùzé chá'àn de guānyuán zǐxì jiǎnchá le shāngkǒu shāngkǒu yòu kuān yòu qiǎn biānyuán bù zhěngqí bú xiàng dāo kǎn de dào xiàng shì liándāo gē de

    The official in charge examined the wounds carefully: they were wide and shallow with ragged edges—not like cuts from a knife, but rather like slashes from a sickle.

    From the story The flies that solved the case HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 检查

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).