HSK 5 · Money

讨价还价 tǎojiàhuánjià “to bargain” in Chinese

Traditional 討價還價

What 讨价还价 means

  1. to bargain
  2. to haggle
  3. to haggle over price

How to say 讨价还价

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale讨tǎo3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale价jià4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale还huán2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale价jià4th tone, falling

讨价还价 in a sentence

  1. 在市场买东西可以讨价还价。

    Zài shìchǎng mǎi dōngxi kěyǐ tǎojiàhuánjià.

    You can bargain when you shop at the market.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 她很会讨价还价。

    Tā hěn huì tǎojiàhuánjià.

    She’s very good at haggling.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 讨价还价 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 讨 (tǎo) with each of its parts in a different colour
讨tǎoto invite
  • 讠speech form of 言 · yán
  • 寸inch · cùn
The character 价 (jià) with each of its parts in a different colour
价jiàprice
  • 亻person form of 人 · rén
  • 介agent · jièSound part
The character 还 (hái) with each of its parts in a different colour
还huánto pay back
  • 不no · bù
  • 辶walking form of 辵 · chuò

Memory aidWalk 辶 back again: to return (huán). Read hái, it means “still”.

The character 价 (jià) with each of its parts in a different colour
价jiàprice
  • 亻person form of 人 · rén
  • 介agent · jièSound part

How to write 讨价还价

讨 5 strokes · 价 6 strokes · 还 7 strokes

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

Words related to 讨价还价

Words with 讨

讨论tǎolùn · to discuss讨厌tǎoyàn · to dislike检讨jiǎntǎo · self-criticism探讨tàntǎo · to discuss讨好tǎohǎo · to please

Words with 价

价格jiàgé · price评价píngjià · to evaluate价值jiàzhí · value代价dàijià · price物美价廉wùměijiàlián · good quality at a low price

Words with 还

还hái · still还是háishi · or归还guīhuán · to return (something)还原huányuán · to restore偿还chánghuán · to repay

More words: Money & Economy

商务shāngwù · business市场shìchǎng · marketplace税shuì · taxes损失sǔnshī · loss投入tóurù · to put in投资tóuzī · investment消费xiāofèi · to consume押金yājīn · deposit

FAQs

讨价还价 (tǎojiàhuánjià) means “to bargain” or “to haggle”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it tǎojiàhuánjià: tǎo with a 3rd tone, then jià with a 4th tone, then huán with a 2nd tone, then jià 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, 讨价还价 is written 討價還價. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type taojiahuanjia with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 讨价还价 from the suggestions. Typing taojiahuanjia into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
讨价还价 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.