HSK 5 · Money

赔偿 péicháng “to compensate” in Chinese

Traditional 賠償

What 赔偿 means

  1. to compensate

How to say 赔偿

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale赔péi2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale偿cháng2nd tone, rising

赔偿 in a sentence

  1. 你需要赔偿他损失的钱。

    Nǐ xūyào péicháng tā sǔnshī de qián.

    You must compensate him for the money he lost.

    Sentence #10342272 from Tatoeba

  2. 他们状告政府赔偿损失。

    Tāmen zhuànggào zhèngfǔ péicháng sǔnshī.

    They sued the government for compensation.

    Sentence #781079 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 赔偿 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 赔 (péi) with each of its parts in a different colour
赔péito compensate for loss
  • 贝sea shell · bèiMeaning part
  • 咅to spit out · pǒuSound part

贝 hints at the meaning (sea shell); 咅 (pǒu) hints at the sound. Compare it with péi.

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.

How to write 赔偿

赔 12 strokes · 偿 11 strokes

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

Words related to 赔偿

Words with 偿

补偿bǔcháng · to compensate偿还chánghuán · to repay无偿wúcháng · free of charge得不偿失débùchángshī · not worth it

More words: Money & Economy

利润lìrùn · profits利息lìxī · interest (on a loan)贸易màoyì · (commercial) trade名牌míngpái · famous brand破产pòchǎn · to go bankrupt欠qiàn · to owe人民币rénmínbì · Renminbi (RMB)商品shāngpǐn · commodity

FAQs

赔偿 (péicháng) means “to compensate”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it péicháng: péi with a 2nd tone, then cháng 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, 赔偿 is written 賠償. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type peichang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 赔偿 from the suggestions. Typing peichang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
赔偿 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 from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.