按照 (ànzhào) means According to. Below are 7 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
他严格 按照 指令操作。
Tā yángé ànzhào zhǐlìng cāozuò.
He operated strictly according to instructions.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 指令
请严格 按照 说明书操作。
Qǐng yángé ànzhào shuōmíngshū cāozuò.
Please operate it strictly according to the manual.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 操作
请 按照 统一的格式填写。
Qǐng ànzhào tǒngyī de géshì tiánxiě.
Please fill it in according to the standard format.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 格式
他 按照 上级的指示行事。
Tā ànzhào shàngjí de zhǐshì xíngshì.
He acted on his superior's instructions.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 指示
按照 惯例，会议在周一举行。
Ànzhào guànlì, huìyì zài zhōuyī jǔxíng.
By convention the meeting is held on Monday.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 惯例
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Questions about 按照
How is 按照 used in a sentence?
This page shows 7 sentences using 按照 (ànzhào, "According to"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Is 按照 an HSK word?
Yes — 按照 is on the official HSK 4 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 4 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 按照?
The dictionary page for 按照 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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