取 (qǔ): meaning and stroke order
取 (qǔ) means to take, to get, to choose, to fetch.
取
- Simplified
- 取
- Traditional
- 取 (same form)
- Pinyin
- qǔ
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Stroke order of 取
取
- qǔ to take; to get
- 8 strokes
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Meaning of 取
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qǔ
- to take
- to get
- to choose
- to fetch
Radical and structure
- 取
- Radical 又 (Kangxi radical 29) · 8 strokes · 耳 on the left, 又 on the right
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Words with 取
- 取经 qǔ jīng to journey to India on a quest for the Buddhist scriptures; to learn by studying another's experience
- 取消 qǔ xiāo to cancel; to call off; to revoke; to rescind
- 采取 cǎi qǔ to adopt or carry out (measures, policies, course of action); to take
- 以貌取人 yǐ mào qǔ rén to judge sb by appearances (idiom)
取 in our stories
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奶奶却没有笑。她看了苏菲很久，慢慢地从手腕上取下一只旧玉镯子，戴在了苏菲的手上。
nǎinai què méiyǒu xiào tā kàn le Sūfēi hěn jiǔ mànmàn de cóng shǒuwàn shàng qǔ xià yì zhī jiù yù zhuózi dài zài le Sūfēi de shǒu shàng
But Grandma didn't laugh. She looked at Sophie for a long time, then slowly slipped an old jade bracelet off her wrist and put it on Sophie's.
From the story An old bracelet HSK 6
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女士来取碗的时候，眼圈一下子红了：“我母亲生前最喜欢梅花。”庞师傅笑了笑，说他并不知道，只是觉得裂缝的形状像一根树枝。
nǚshì lái qǔ wǎn de shíhou yǎnquān yíxiàzi hóng le wǒ mǔqīn shēngqián zuì xǐhuan méihuā Páng shīfu xiào le xiào shuō tā bìng bù zhīdao zhǐshì juéde lièfèng de xíngzhuàng xiàng yì gēn shùzhī
When the woman came for the bowl, her eyes reddened at once: "My mother loved plum blossom more than anything." Master Pang smiled and said he hadn't known; he had just thought the cracks looked like a branch.
From the story Mending the bowl HSK 7–9 · Level 9
Stories using 取
- An old bracelet HSK 6
- Mending the bowl HSK 7–9 · Level 9
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).