盘点

盤點

pándiǎn

verb #36,371

Meanings

1 to take stock
2 to make an inventory
3 to take an end-of-year/period look back

Characters

plate; coil; examine

Examples

商店每月底都要盘点一次。

Shāngdiàn měi yuèdǐ dōu yào pándiǎn yī cì.

The shop takes inventory once at the end of every month.

让我们盘点一下今年的十大新闻。

Ràng wǒmen pándiǎn yīxià jīnnián de shí dà xīnwén.

Let's take stock of this year's top ten news stories.

Tips

usage

盘点 originally meant the warehouse stocktake (counting goods on shelves), but is heavily used in modern media for year-end retrospectives — 年终盘点 (niánzhōng pándiǎn) 'year-end roundup' is a fixture of Chinese journalism.

Stroke Order

盘 pán

点 diǎn