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负担 fùdān “burden” in Chinese

Traditional 負擔

What 负担 means

  1. burden
  2. load
  3. to bear (a cost or responsibility)
  4. to bear (an expense, a responsibility etc)

How to say 负担

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale负fù4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale担dān1st tone, high and level

负担 in a sentence

  1. 那个责任对他是个负担。

    Nà ge zérèn duì tā shì ge fùdān.

    That responsibility is a burden to him.

    Sentence #336466 from Tatoeba

  2. 我负担不起。

    Wǒ fùdān bu qǐ.

    I can’t afford it.

    Sentence #10260814 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 负担 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 负 (fù) with each of its parts in a different colour
负fùto bear
  • ⺈knife form of 刀 · dāo
  • 贝sea shell · bèi
The character 担 (dān) with each of its parts in a different colour
担dānto undertake
  • 扌hand form of 手 · shǒuMeaning part
  • 旦dawn · dànSound part

扌 hints at the meaning (hand); 旦 (dàn) hints at the sound. Compare it with dān.

How to write 负担

负 6 strokes · 担 8 strokes

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

Words related to 负担

Words with 负

负责fùzé · to be in charge of胜负shèngfù · victory or defeat辜负gūfù · to let down欺负qīfu · to bully抱负bàofù · aspiration正负zhèngfù · positive and negative

Words with 担

担心dānxīn · to worry承担chéngdān · to take on (responsibility)担任dānrèn · to hold (a post)担保dānbǎo · to guarantee

More words: Ideas & Concepts

飞跃fēiyuè · leap分寸fēncun · sense of propriety分量fènliàng · weight分歧fēnqí · difference (of opinion)幅度fúdù · range符号fúhào · symbol复活fùhuó · to come back to life福气fúqi · good fortune

FAQs

负担 (fùdān) means “burden” or “load”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it fùdān: fù with a 4th tone, then dān 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, 负担 is written 負擔. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type fudan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 负担 from the suggestions. Typing fudan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
负担 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.