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报复

bào fù

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

报复 (bào fù) means "to make reprisals; to retaliate; revenge; retaliation". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 报复 means

1. to make reprisals; to retaliate
2. revenge; retaliation

The characters in 报复

• 报bàoto report; to inform; to announce; to respond; to reply; to sign up for…
• 复fùto go and return; to return; to resume

Example sentences

• 他对杀父凶手进行了报复。
  Tā duì shā fù xiōngshǒu jìnxíng le bàofù.
  He avenged the murder of his father.
• 燕大侠发现自己被骗了他飞到了江枫的旁边，他抱走江枫的儿子。燕大侠誓言报复，他把男孩给了一个香料商人。
  Yàn dàxiá fāxiàn zìjǐ bèi piàn le tā fēi dào le jiāng fēng de pángbiān, tā bào zǒu jiāng fēng de érzi. yàn dàxiá shìyán bàofù, tā bǎ nánhái gěi le yī gè xiāngliào shāngrén.
  Yan Daxia realised he had been lied to and flew to Jiang Feng's side. He took Jiang Feng's son and left. Yan Daxia vowed revenge and left the boy with a spice merchant.
• 中国采取的报复性关税措施降低了大豆等农作物的需求和整体价格，最终影响了农民的收入，迫使许多农民一时无法购买大型、昂贵的设备。
  Retaliatory tariffs by China have decreased demand and overall prices for crops like soybeans, ultimately affecting a farmer’s bottom line, forcing many to hold off purchasing large, expensive equipment.

Words starting with 报复

• 报复心bào fù xīnvindictiveness
• 报复性bào fù xìngretaliatory

Words containing 报复

• 打击报复dǎ jī bào fù(idiom) to retaliate

Sounds the same

Read bào fù, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 抱负aspiration; ambition
• 暴富to get rich quick

Where 报复 is taught

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

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