HSK 6 · Verbs

报仇 bàochóu “to take revenge” in Chinese

Traditional 報仇

What 报仇 means

  1. to take revenge
  2. to avenge

How to say 报仇

  • 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 second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale仇chóu2nd tone, rising

报仇 in a sentence

  1. 汤姆想报仇。

    Tāngmǔ xiǎng bàochóu.

    Tom wanted revenge.

    Sentence #6093363 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 报仇 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 仇 (chóu) with each of its parts in a different colour
仇chóuhatred
  • 亻person form of 人 · rénMeaning part
  • 九nine · jiǔSound part

亻 hints at the meaning (person); 九 (jiǔ) hints at the sound. Compare it with chóu.

How to write 报仇

报 7 strokes · 仇 4 strokes

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

Words related to 报仇

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报答bàodá · to repay (a kindness)报复bàofu · to retaliate报酬bàochou · pay

More words: Common Verbs

败坏bàihuài · to ruin摆脱bǎituō · to break free from巴结bājie · to fawn on伴随bànsuí · to accompany报答bàodá · to repay (a kindness)爆发bàofā · to break out报复bàofu · to retaliate保管bǎoguǎn · to look after

FAQs

报仇 (bàochóu) means “to take revenge” or “to avenge”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it bàochóu: bào with a 4th tone, then chóu with a 2nd 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, 报仇 is written 報仇. 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 报仇 from the suggestions. Typing baochou into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
报仇 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.