HSK 6 · Money

无偿 wúcháng “free of charge” in Chinese

Traditional 無償

What 无偿 means

  1. free of charge
  2. unpaid
  3. free
  4. no charge
  5. at no cost

How to say 无偿

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale无wú2nd 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

无偿 in a sentence

  1. 我愿意无偿接下这件活。

    Wǒ yuànyì wúcháng jiēxià zhè jiàn huó.

    I’d be happy to take on this job for free.

    Sentence #13880616 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 无偿 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 无 (wú) with each of its parts in a different colour
无wúnot to have
  • 一one · yī
  • 尢lame · wāng
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 无偿

无 4 strokes · 偿 11 strokes

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

Words related to 无偿

Words with 无

无wú · not to have无聊wúliáo · bored无论wúlùn · no matter what or how无法wúfǎ · to be unable to无奈wúnài · to have no alternative无数wúshù · countless无所谓wúsuǒwèi · to not matter无赖wúlài · rogue无比wúbǐ · incomparable无耻wúchǐ · shameless

Words with 偿

赔偿péicháng · to compensate补偿bǔcháng · to compensate偿还chánghuán · to repay得不偿失débùchángshī · not worth it

More words: Money & Economy

停滞tíngzhì · to stagnate通货膨胀tōnghuòpéngzhàng · inflation投机tóujī · to speculate推销tuīxiāo · to promote物美价廉wùměijiàlián · good quality at a low price物业wùyè · property物资wùzī · goods and materials效益xiàoyì · benefit

FAQs

无偿 (wúcháng) means “free of charge” or “unpaid”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it wúcháng: wú 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, 无偿 is written 無償. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type wuchang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 无偿 from the suggestions. Typing wuchang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
无偿 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.