HSK 6 · Money

偿还 chánghuán “to repay” in Chinese

Traditional 償還

What 偿还 means

  1. to repay
  2. to pay back
  3. to reimburse

How to say 偿还

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale偿cháng2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale还huán2nd tone, rising

偿还 in a sentence

  1. 这个家庭非常贫穷以至于无法偿还贷款。

    Zhè ge jiātíng fēicháng pínqióng yǐzhìyú wúfǎ chánghuán dàikuǎn.

    The family is so poor that they can’t repay the loan.

    Sentence #733157 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 偿还 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 偿 (cháng) with each of its parts in a different colour
偿chángto repay
  • 亻person form of 人 · rénMeaning part
  • 尝to taste · chángSound part

亻 hints at the meaning (person); 尝 (cháng) hints at the sound. Compare it with cháng.

The character 还 (hái) with each of its parts in a different colour
还huánto pay back
  • 不no · bù
  • 辶walking form of 辵 · chuò

Memory aidWalk 辶 back again: to return (huán). Read hái, it means “still”.

How to write 偿还

偿 11 strokes · 还 7 strokes

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

Words related to 偿还

Words with 偿

赔偿péicháng · to compensate补偿bǔcháng · to compensate无偿wúcháng · free of charge得不偿失débùchángshī · not worth it

Words with 还

还hái · still还是háishi · or讨价还价tǎojiàhuánjià · to bargain归还guīhuán · to return (something)还原huányuán · to restore

More words: Money & Economy

采购cǎigòu · to purchase (for an organisation)彩票cǎipiào · lottery ticket财务cáiwù · financial affairs财政cáizhèng · public finance畅销chàngxiāo · best-selling产业chǎnyè · industry钞票chāopiào · banknote成本chéngběn · cost (of production)

FAQs

偿还 (chánghuán) means “to repay” or “to pay back”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it chánghuán: cháng with a 2nd tone, then huán 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, 偿还 is written 償還. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type changhuan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 偿还 from the suggestions. Typing changhuan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
偿还 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.