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偿还

cháng huán

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 償還

偿还 (cháng huán) means "to repay; to reimburse". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 偿还 means

1. to repay; to reimburse

The characters in 偿还

• 偿chángto repay; to compensate for; to recompense
• 还háistill; still in progress; still more

Example sentences

• 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.
• 仍有在孩子熟睡后仍难以入眠的父母，他们担心如何偿还按揭月供、付医药费或是存够钱让孩子上大学。
  Réng yǒu zài háizi shúshuì hòu réng nányǐ rùmián de fùmǔ, tāmen dānxīn rúhé chánghuán ànjiē yuègōng, fù yīyào fèi huòshì cún gòu qián ràng háizi shàng dàxué.
  There are mothers and fathers who will lie awake after the children fall asleep and wonder how they'll make the mortgage, or pay their doctor's bills, or save enough for their child's college education.

Where 偿还 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · chān–chǎn (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read cháng huán correctly.
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