HSK 6 · Verbs

饶恕 ráoshù “to forgive” in Chinese

Traditional 饒恕

What 饶恕 means

  1. to forgive
  2. to pardon
  3. to spare

How to say 饶恕

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale饶ráo2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale恕shù4th tone, falling

饶恕 in a sentence

  1. 公主向皇帝请求饶恕。

    Gōngzhǔ xiàng huángdì qǐngqiú ráoshù.

    The princess begged forgiveness from the emperor.

    Sentence #8899483 from Tatoeba

How 饶恕 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 饶 (ráo) with each of its parts in a different colour
饶ráorich
  • 饣eat form of 食 · shíMeaning part
  • 尧a legendary ancient emperor-sage · YáoSound part

饣 hints at the meaning (eat); 尧 (Yáo) hints at the sound. Compare it with ráo.

The character 恕 (shù) with each of its parts in a different colour
恕shùto forgive
  • 如as · rúSound part
  • 心heart · xīnMeaning part

心 hints at the meaning (heart); 如 (rú) hints at the sound. Compare it with shù.

How to write 饶恕

饶 9 strokes · 恕 10 strokes

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

Words related to 饶恕

More words: Thinking & Talking

确信quèxìn · to be convinced区分qūfēn · to distinguish嚷rǎng · to shout让步ràngbù · to concede认定rèndìng · to be convinced认可rènkě · to approve撒谎sāhuǎng · to lie擅长shàncháng · to be good at

FAQs

饶恕 (ráoshù) means “to forgive” or “to pardon”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it ráoshù: ráo with a 2nd tone, then shù 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, 饶恕 is written 饒恕. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type raoshu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 饶恕 from the suggestions. Typing raoshu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
饶恕 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.