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采取

cǎi qǔ 3–3 → 2–3

to adopt or carry out (measures, policies, course of action); to take

HSK level
HSK 3
HSK 2.0 level 5 · HSK 3.0 level 3
Characters
2
采 · 取
Syllables
2
cǎi qǔ
Frequency
Common
corpus count 1,701

Part of speech: v

Character by character

  • 采cǎi8 strokesHSK 3collect, gather; pick, pluck
  • 取qǔ8 strokesHSK 2take, receive, obtain; select

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 他们根据情报采取行动。

    Tā men gēn jù qíng bào cǎi qǔ xíng dòng

    They acted on the information.

  • 接下来该采取什么行动就交给你了。

    Jiē xià lái gāi cǎi qǔ shén me xíng dòng jiù jiāo gěi nǐ le

    I leave it in your hands what course of action to take.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 采取. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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