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筹划

chóu huà

2-character word Traditional 籌劃

What 筹划 means

1. to plan and prepare

The characters in 筹划

• 筹chóuchip (in gambling); token (for counting); ticket; to prepare; to plan; to raise (funds)…
• 划huàto delimit; to transfer; to assign

Example sentences

• 正在筹划中……
  It's being arranged.
• 这里正在筹划建设一座发电站。
  Plans are being drawn up to build a power station here.
• 筹划旅行的时候，我们必须考虑到全家人的意愿。
  Chóuhuà lǚxíng de shíhou, wǒmen bìxū kǎolǜ dào quánjiā rén de yìyuàn.
  We must take into account the wishes of all the family in planning a trip.
• 若老师要筹划一趟假期旅行或类似需要比价、核算费用的事，他便会借助学生的本领。有时，妻子想要一个新果盘，或丈夫想要一把新裁纸刀；许多人有儿子需要听睡前短故事，或有女儿的洋娃娃必须穿上最时髦的衣裳；凡此种种，老师一律让学生替他代劳。
  If the teacher is to plan out a vacation or something similar requiring one to compare prices and figure out what it would cost, it is the pupils' skills he would exploit. Sometimes, the wife may be wishing for a new fruit bowl, or perhaps the husband is looking for a new letter opener. Many have sons that require a short bedside story or daughters with dolls that must be clad in clothing of utmost fashionability; all this, the teacher makes the pupils make for him.

Sounds the same

Read chóu huà, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 筹画variant of 筹划