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日程

rìchéng

schedule; agenda

A person pins a cinnabar red card to a schedule board on a desk
Memory picture

Characters in this word

日 rì

Strokes
4
Radical
日 — sun
How it's built
Pictograph — a drawing of the thing

程 chéng

Strokes
12
Radical
禾 — cereal, grain, rice
Made of
禾 cereal, grain, rice 呈 to petition, to submit
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
More about the character 程

Example phrases

  • 由于谈判意外延长,代表团不得不重新安排下午的日程。 Yóuyú tánpàn yìwài yáncháng, dàibiǎotuán bùdébù chóngxīn ānpái xiàwǔ de rìchéng. Because the negotiations were unexpectedly extended, the delegation had to rearrange the afternoon schedule.
  • 明天的日程已经排满,请你不要太晚休息。 Míngtiān de rìchéng yǐjīng páimǎn, qǐng nǐ búyào tài wǎn xiūxi. Tomorrow's schedule is already full; please don't rest too late.
  • 会议日程包括三个主要议题,预计傍晚结束。 Huìyì rìchéng bāokuò sān gè zhǔyào yìtí, yùjì bàngwǎn jiéshù. The meeting agenda includes three main topics and is expected to finish in the evening.

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