HSK 5 · Work

结账 jiézhàng “to pay the bill” in Chinese

Traditional 結賬

What 结账 means

  1. to pay the bill
  2. to settle accounts

How to say 结账

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale结jié2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale账zhàng4th tone, falling

结账 in a sentence

  1. 服务员，结账！

    Fúwùyuán, jiézhàng!

    Excuse me, the bill, please!

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 我们吃完饭去前台结账。

    Wǒmen chīwán fàn qù qiántái jiézhàng.

    After dinner we went to the front counter to pay the bill.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 结账 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 结 (jié) with each of its parts in a different colour
结jiéknot
  • 纟silk form of 糸 · mìMeaning part
  • 吉lucky · jíSound part

纟 hints at the meaning (silk); 吉 (jí) hints at the sound. Compare it with jié.

Memory aidSilk 纟 tied into a knot. 吉 (jí) gives the sound: to tie, a knot.

The character 账 (zhàng) with each of its parts in a different colour
账zhàngaccount
  • 贝sea shell · bèiMeaning part
  • 长long · chángSound part

贝 hints at the meaning (sea shell); 长 (cháng) hints at the sound. Compare it with zhàng.

How to write 结账

结 9 strokes · 账 8 strokes

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

Words related to 结账

Words with 结

结婚jiéhūn · get married结束jiéshù · to end总结zǒngjié · to sum up结果jiéguǒ · result结合jiéhé · to combine结实jiēshi · sturdy结构jiégòu · structure结论jiélùn · conclusion巴结bājie · to fawn on冻结dòngjié · to freeze (assets

Words with 账

账户zhànghù · bank account

More words: Work & Career

合作hézuò · to cooperate兼职jiānzhí · part-time job会计kuàijì · accountant简历jiǎnlì · curriculum vitae (CV)经营jīngyíng · to run (a business)开发kāifā · to develop劳动láodòng · work老板lǎobǎn · boss

FAQs

结账 (jiézhàng) means “to pay the bill” or “to settle accounts”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it jiézhàng: jié with a 2nd tone, then zhàng 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, 结账 is written 結賬. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type jiezhang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 结账 from the suggestions. Typing jiezhang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
结账 is an HSK 5 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.