HSK 6 · Society

贿赂 huìlù “to bribe” in Chinese

Traditional 賄賂

What 贿赂 means

  1. to bribe
  2. bribery

How to say 贿赂

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale贿huì4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale赂lù4th tone, falling

贿赂 in a sentence

  1. 市长否认收受了贿赂。

    Shìzhǎng fǒurèn shōushòu le huìlù.

    The mayor denied having taken a bribe.

    Sentence #431520 from Tatoeba

How 贿赂 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 贿 (huì) with each of its parts in a different colour
贿huìbribery
  • 贝sea shell · bèi
  • 有to have · yǒu
The character 赂 (lù) with each of its parts in a different colour
赂lùbribe
  • 贝sea shell · bèi
  • 各individual · gè

How to write 贿赂

贿 10 strokes · 赂 10 strokes

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

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FAQs

贿赂 (huìlù) means “to bribe” or “bribery”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it huìlù: huì with a 4th tone, then lù with a 4th 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, 贿赂 is written 賄賂. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type huilu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 贿赂 from the suggestions. Typing huilu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
贿赂 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.