HSK 6 · Verbs

拜访 bàifǎng “to pay a visit” in Chinese

Traditional 拜訪

What 拜访 means

  1. to pay a visit
  2. to call on

How to say 拜访

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale拜bài4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale访fǎng3rd tone, dipping

拜访 in a sentence

  1. 他偶尔会来拜访我。

    Tā ǒu'ěr huì lái bàifǎng wǒ.

    He occasionally comes to visit me.

    Sentence #2567430 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我没有拜访他，因为我感冒了。

    Wǒ méiyǒu bàifǎng tā, yīnwèi wǒ gǎnmào le.

    I didn’t visit him because I had a cold.

    Sentence #332550 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 我不喜欢突如其来的拜访。

    Wǒ bù xǐhuan tūrúqílái de bàifǎng.

    I don’t like surprise visits.

    Sentence #13573924 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 拜访 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 拜 (bài) with each of its parts in a different colour
拜bàito bow to; to pay one’s respects
  • 手hand · shǒu
  • 手hand · shǒu
The character 访 (fǎng) with each of its parts in a different colour
访fǎngto seek by inquiry
  • 讠speech form of 言 · yánMeaning part
  • 方square · fāngSound part

讠 hints at the meaning (speech); 方 (fāng) hints at the sound. Compare it with fǎng.

How to write 拜访

拜 9 strokes · 访 6 strokes

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拜访 (bàifǎng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 拜访 (bàifǎng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 拜访

Words with 拜

礼拜天Lǐbàitiān · Sunday拜托bàituō · to ask a favour崇拜chóngbài · to worship拜年bàinián · to give New Year greetings

Words with 访

采访cǎifǎng · to interview访问fǎngwèn · to visit

More words: Common Verbs

安置ānzhì · to find a place for熬áo · to endure扒bā · to dig up掰bāi · to break off with both hands败坏bàihuài · to ruin摆脱bǎituō · to break free from巴结bājie · to fawn on伴随bànsuí · to accompany

FAQs

拜访 (bàifǎng) means “to pay a visit” or “to call on”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it bàifǎng: bài with a 4th tone, then fǎng with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 拜访 is written 拜訪. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type baifang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 拜访 from the suggestions. Typing baifang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
拜访 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.