格式化

géshìhuà

verb #29,174

Meanings

1 to format (a disk or drive)
2 to standardize format

Characters

pattern; standard; grid; character

style; format; type; mode

to change; to convert; to -ify/-ize

Examples

你需要先格式化U盘才能使用。

Nǐ xūyào xiān géshìhuà U pán cái néng shǐyòng.

You need to format the USB drive before you can use it.

格式化硬盘会删除所有数据，请谨慎操作。

Géshìhuà yìngpán huì shānchú suǒyǒu shùjù, qǐng jǐnshèn cāozuò.

Formatting the hard drive will delete all data — please proceed with caution.

Tips

usage

格式化 is almost exclusively a computing term for formatting storage media. The suffix 化 (-huà) is a productive word-forming element meaning 'to make into' or 'to convert to' (e.g. 现代化 modernize, 标准化 standardize).

Stroke Order

格 gé

式 shì

化 huà