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偿

cháng

HSK 5 Character Traditional 償

What 偿 means

1. to repay
2. to compensate for
3. to recompense
4. to fulfill (hopes etc)

Example sentences

• 你如愿以偿了吗?
  Nǐ rúyuànyǐcháng le ma?
  Did you get your wish?
• 他终于如愿以偿了。
  Tā zhōngyú rúyuànyǐcháng le.
  He finally got his wish.
• 他们状告政府赔偿损失。
  Tāmen zhuànggào zhèngfǔ péicháng sǔnshī.
  They sued the government for damages.
• 你需要赔偿他损失的钱。
  You must compensate him for the money he lost.
• 我愿意无偿接下这件活。
  I'd be willing to do that for free.
• 这个家庭非常贫穷以至于无法偿还贷款。
  Zhège jiātíng fēicháng pínqióng yǐzhìyú wúfǎ chánghuán dàikuǎn.
  The family is too poor to pay back the debts.

Words starting with 偿

• 偿还cháng huánto repay; to reimburse
• 偿命cháng mìngto pay with one's life
• 偿付cháng fùto pay back
• 偿清cháng qīngto repay; to pay off a debt
• 偿债cháng zhàito repay a debt

Words containing 偿

• 赔偿péi chángto compensate
• 补偿bǔ chángto compensate; to make up
• 无偿wú chángfree; no charge; at no cost
• 得不偿失dé bù cháng shīthe gains do not make up for the losses (idiom)
• 有偿yǒu chángpaying; paid (not free)
• 如愿以偿rú yuàn yǐ chángto have one's wish fulfilled
• 赔偿金péi cháng jīncompensation
• 清偿qīng chángto repay a debt in full; to redeem; to clear
• 代偿dài cháng(medical) compensation; to repay a debt or obligation in place of sb else
• 报偿bào chángto repay; to recompense
• 求偿qiú chángto seek compensation; indemnity
• 补偿费bǔ cháng fèicompensation
• 得偿所愿dé cháng suǒ yuànto have one's wish fulfilled
• 追偿zhuī chángto recover compensation already paid from the liable party
• 血债血偿xuè zhài xuè chánga debt of blood must be paid in blood; blood calls for blood; also pr. xuè zhài xiě cháng
• 抵偿dǐ chángto compensate; to make good (a financial loss)
• 肉偿ròu cháng(fig.) to use sex to pay off (a debt)
• 酬偿chóu chángreward
• 夙愿以偿sù yuàn yǐ chánga long-cherished ambition is realized
• 夙愿得偿sù yuàn dé chángto have a long-cherished wish realized
• 血债要用血来偿xuè zhài yào yòng xuè lái chángA debt of blood must be paid in blood.; Blood calls for blood.

Characters that look like 偿

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 续xùto continue; to replenish
• 候hòuto wait; to inquire after; to watch
• 债zhàidebt
• 锁suǒto lock; to lock up; a lock
• 颁bānto promulgate; to send out; to issue
• 犊dúcalf; sacrificial victim

Sounds the same

Read cháng, tone for tone, but written differently.

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• 尝to taste; to try (food); to experience; (literary) ever; once
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• 倘used in 倘佯
• 裳lower garment; skirts; petticoats
• 苌plant mentioned in Book of Songs, uncertainly identified as carambola or star fruit…
• 场threshing floor; classifier for events and happenings: spell, episode, bout
• 徜sit cross-legged; walk back and forth
• 嫦used in 嫦娥; used in female given names
• 镸"long" or "to grow" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 168)
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