衡 héng
- Strokes
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- Radical
- 行 — to go, to walk, to move
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
衡量
héngliáng
to measure, to weigh
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Example phrases
- 衡量一项政策是否成功，不能只看短期数据。 Héngliáng yí xiàng zhèngcè shìfǒu chénggōng, bù néng zhǐ kàn duǎnqī shùjù. When measuring whether a policy is successful, one must not look only at short-term data.
- 买东西时，我们要衡量价格和质量哪个更重要。 Mǎi dōngxi shí, wǒmen yào héngliáng jiàgé hé zhìliàng nǎge gèng zhòngyào. When shopping, we need to weigh up which matters more, price or quality.
- 很难用金钱来衡量这份友谊的价值。 Hěn nán yòng jīnqián lái héngliáng zhè fèn yǒuyì de jiàzhí. It is hard to measure the value of this friendship in money.
Related words
- 均衡 jūnhéng balanced; equilibrium
- 抗衡 kànghéng to contend with; to counterbalance
- 权衡 quánhéng to weigh; to balance
- 大量 dàliàng a large amount of
- 商量 shāngliang to discuss; to consult
- 尽量 jǐnliàng as much as possible
- 力量 lìliang power; strength
- 数量 shùliàng quantity
- 测量 cèliáng to measure
- 含量 hánliàng content; amount contained
- 量 liáng to measure
- 质量 zhìliàng quality