Chinese symbol for “appropriation”
拨用
bō yòng
Traditional: 撥用
appropriation
The closest CC-CEDICT match for appropriation is 拨用 (bō yòng), defined as: appropriation.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “appropriation”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 拨用.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 拨款 (撥款) | bō kuǎn | to allocate funds; appropriation |
| 拨打 (撥打) | bō dǎ | to call; to dial |
| 拨乱反正 (撥亂反正) | bō luàn fǎn zhèng | bring order out of chaos; set to rights things which have been thrown into disorder |
| 挑拨 (挑撥) | tiǎo bō | to incite disharmony; to instigate |
| 拨号 (撥號) | bō hào | to dial a telephone number |
| 调拨 (調撥) | diào bō | to send (products); to allocate |
| 使用 | shǐ yòng | to use; to employ |
| 利用 | lì yòng | to exploit; to make use of |
See also: Japanese symbol for “appropriation”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.