HSK 6 · Money

赤字 chìzì “deficit” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 赤字 means

  1. deficit
  2. (financial) deficit
  3. red letter

How to say 赤字

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale赤chì4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale字zì4th tone, falling

赤字 in a sentence

  1. 我们去年遇到了赤字。

    Wǒmen qùnián yùdào le chìzì.

    We ran a deficit last year.

    Sentence #333588 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 赤字 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 赤 (chì) with each of its parts in a different colour
赤chìred
  • 土earth · tǔ
  • 火fire · huǒ
The character 字 (zì) with each of its parts in a different colour
字zìletter
  • 宀roof · mián
  • 子child · zǐ

Memory aidA child 子 under a roof 宀, learning to write: a written character.

How to write 赤字

赤 7 strokes · 字 6 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

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

Words related to 赤字

Words with 赤

赤道chìdào · the equator

Words with 字

字zì · character名字míngzi · name汉字hànzì · Chinese character字典zìdiǎn · dictionary (of characters)数字shùzì · numeral文字wénzì · writing字母zìmǔ · letter (of the alphabet)字幕zìmù · caption繁体字fántǐzì · traditional Chinese character简体字jiǎntǐzì · simplified Chinese characters

More words: Money & Economy

产业chǎnyè · industry钞票chāopiào · banknote成本chéngběn · cost (of production)成交chéngjiāo · to close a deal储备chǔbèi · reserves储蓄chǔxù · savings次品cìpǐn · defective product担保dānbǎo · to guarantee

FAQs

赤字 (chìzì) means “deficit” or “(financial) deficit”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it chìzì: chì with a 4th tone, then zì with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 赤字 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type chizi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 赤字 from the suggestions. Typing chizi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
赤字 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.