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劃

简划 · 繁劃

Mandarin · pinyin huá#

to cut
to slash
to scratch (cut into the surface of sth)
to strike (a match)

Mandarin · pinyin huà#

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劃: Look up this written character
划: huà · to row or paddle boat; to scratch

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2 · hua2

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waak6

Cantonese word readings for 劃. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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character

to delimit; to differentiate；to divide; to mark off
to transfer (money, accounts, etc.)
to assign (task, etc.)
to plan
to gesture as a signal
to scratch; to cut (the surface)
(alt-of, alternative) alternative form of 畫 /画 (“stroke of a Chinese character (line drawn with a writing implement)”)
(dialectal) alternative form of 畫 /画 (“horizontal stroke of a Chinese character”)
used in 劃然／划然
(South Korean idol fandom, humorous) NCT (group)

character

only used in 㓦劃／㓦划 (bāihuai)

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