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弥补

mí bǔ

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 彌補

弥补 (mí bǔ) means "to complement". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 弥补 means

1. to complement
2. to make up for a deficiency

The characters in 弥补

• 弥mífull; to fill; completely
• 补bǔto repair; to patch; to mend

Example sentences

• 我必须弥补损失。
  Wǒ bìxū míbǔ sǔnshī.
  I must make up for the loss.
• 您必须弥补损失。
  You must make up for the loss.
• 你必须弥补损失。
  You must make up for the loss.
• 弥补永远不会太晚。
  It's never too late to make amends.
• 世上没有任何的成功，能够弥补家庭的失败。
  Shìshàng méiyǒu rènhé de chénggōng, nénggòu míbǔ jiātíng de shībài.
  There is no success in the world that makes up for the failure of the family.
• 某些失明者会产生一个弥补性的能力，这个能力让他们察觉到他们与离他们很近的物体的距离。
  Mǒuxiē shīmíng zhě huì chǎnshēng yī gè míbǔ xìng de nénglì, zhège nénglì ràng tāmen chájué dào tāmen yǔ lí tāmen hěn jìn de wùtǐ de jùlí.
  Blind people sometimes develop a compensatory ability to sense the proximity of objects around them.

Where 弥补 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · měi–mí (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 mí bǔ correctly.
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