HSK 6 · Verbs

报答 bàodá “to repay (a kindness)” in Chinese

Traditional 報答

What 报答 means

  1. to repay (a kindness)
  2. to repay
  3. to requite

How to say 报答

  • 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答dá2nd tone, rising

报答 in a sentence

  1. 我一定要报答父母的养育之恩。

    Wǒ yídìng yào bàodá fùmǔ de yǎngyù zhī ēn.

    I must repay my parents for raising me.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 你帮了我这么多，我不知道怎么报答你。

    Nǐ bāng le wǒ zhème duō, wǒ bù zhīdao zěnme bàodá nǐ.

    You’ve helped me so much I don’t know how to repay you.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 报答 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 答 (dá) with each of its parts in a different colour
答dáto answer
  • ⺮bamboo form of 竹 · zhú
  • 合to combine · gě

How to write 报答

报 7 strokes · 答 12 strokes

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

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

Words related to 报答

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报复bàofu · to retaliate报酬bàochou · pay

Words with 答

回答huídá · to reply答案dá'àn · answer答应dāying · to agree答复dáfù · to reply答辩dábiàn · to defend (a thesis)

More words: Common Verbs

摆脱bǎituō · to break free from巴结bājie · to fawn on伴随bànsuí · to accompany报仇bàochóu · to take revenge爆发bàofā · to break out报复bàofu · to retaliate保管bǎoguǎn · to look after暴露bàolù · to expose

FAQs

报答 (bàodá) means “to repay (a kindness)” or “to repay”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it bàodá: bào with a 4th tone, then dá 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, 报答 is written 報答. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type baoda with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 报答 from the suggestions. Typing baoda into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
报答 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 written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.