HSK 6 · Work

报销 bàoxiāo “to claim reimbursement” in Chinese

Traditional 報銷

What 报销 means

  1. to claim reimbursement
  2. to write off
  3. to submit an expense account
  4. to apply for reimbursement
  5. to wipe out

How to say 报销

  • 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 first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale销xiāo1st tone, high and level

报销 in a sentence

  1. 这张火车票能报销吗？

    Zhè zhāng huǒchēpiào néng bàoxiāo ma?

    Can I claim this train ticket on expenses?

    Sentence #5924726 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  2. 你们学校真好，还帮你们报销来回的机票。

    Nǐmen xuéxiào zhēn hǎo, hái bāng nǐmen bàoxiāo láihuí de jīpiào.

    Your school is so good — it even reimburses your return airfares.

    Sentence #352621 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 报销 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 销 (xiāo) with each of its parts in a different colour
销xiāoto melt
  • 钅gold form of 金 · jīnMeaning part
  • 肖to resemble · xiàoSound part

钅 hints at the meaning (gold); 肖 (xiào) hints at the sound. Compare it with xiāo.

How to write 报销

报 7 strokes · 销 12 strokes

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

Words related to 报销

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 销

销售xiāoshòu · to sell撤销chèxiāo · to cancel销毁xiāohuǐ · to destroy (by burning or melting)畅销chàngxiāo · best-selling推销tuīxiāo · to promote

More words: Work & Career

罢工bàgōng · to go on strike把关bǎguān · to check (quality)报酬bàochou · pay保姆bǎomǔ · nanny备忘录bèiwànglù · memorandum才干cáigàn · ability裁员cáiyuán · to cut staff操劳cāoláo · to work hard

FAQs

报销 (bàoxiāo) means “to claim reimbursement” or “to write off”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it bàoxiāo: bào with a 4th tone, then xiāo with a 1st 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, 报销 is written 報銷. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type baoxiao with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 报销 from the suggestions. Typing baoxiao into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
报销 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.