HSK 6 · Work

报酬 bàochou “pay” in Chinese

Traditional 報酬

What 报酬 means

  1. pay
  2. remuneration
  3. reward

How to say 报酬

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale报bào4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own酬chouneutral tone, light and short

Grey pinyin is a neutral tone: say it short and light. More on the neutral tone

报酬 in a sentence

  1. 这工作报酬很高。

    Zhè gōngzuò bàochou hěn gāo.

    This job pays very well.

    Sentence #5555326 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我们做这事没有额外报酬。

    Wǒmen zuò zhè shì méiyǒu éwài bàochou.

    We don’t get any extra pay for doing this.

    Sentence #5856738 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 让我们平分这个报酬吧。

    Ràng wǒmen píngfēn zhè ge bàochou ba.

    Let’s split the payment fifty-fifty.

    Sentence #835767 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 报酬 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 报 (bào) with each of its parts in a different colour
报bàoto report; to inform; to announce
  • 扌hand form of 手 · shǒu
  • 卩seal · jié
  • 又again · yòu
The character 酬 (chóu) with each of its parts in a different colour
酬chóuto entertainlight in 报酬
  • 酉wine vessel · yǒuMeaning part
  • 州state · zhōuSound part

酉 hints at the meaning (wine vessel); 州 (zhōu) hints at the sound. Compare it with chou.

How to write 报酬

报 7 strokes · 酬 13 strokes

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

Words related to 报酬

Words with 报

报纸bàozhǐ · newspaper报名bàomíng · to sign up报道bàodào · to report (news)报到bàodào · to report for duty报告bàogào · to inform预报yùbào · forecast报社bàoshè · newspaper office报仇bàochóu · to take revenge报答bàodá · to repay (a kindness)报复bàofu · to retaliate

Words with 酬

应酬yìngchou · to socialise

More words: Work & Career

资料zīliào · material总裁zǒngcái · president (of a company)罢工bàgōng · to go on strike把关bǎguān · to check (quality)保姆bǎomǔ · nanny报销bàoxiāo · to claim reimbursement备忘录bèiwànglù · memorandum才干cáigàn · ability

FAQs

报酬 (bàochou) means “pay” or “remuneration”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it bàochou: bào with a 4th tone, then chou with a neutral 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, 报酬 is written 報酬. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type baochou with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 报酬 from the suggestions. Typing baochou into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
报酬 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.