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报酬

bào chou

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

报酬 (bào chou) means "reward; remuneration". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 报酬 means

1. reward
2. remuneration

The characters in 报酬

• 报bàoto report; to inform; to announce; to respond; to reply; to sign up for…
• 酬chóuto entertain; to repay; to return

Example sentences

• 这工作报酬很高。
  Zhè gōngzuò bàochou hěn gāo.
  This job pays pretty well.
• 让我们平分这个报酬吧。
  Ràng wǒmen píngfēn zhège bàochou ba.
  Let's split the reward fifty-fifty.
• 我们做这事没有额外报酬。
  Wǒmen zuò zhè shì méiyǒu éwài bàochou.
  We won't get paid extra for doing this.
• 他们希望会找到一份报酬优厚的工作。
  Tāmen xīwàng huì zhǎodào yī fèn bàochou yōuhòu de gōngzuò.
  They hope to be able to find a well-paid job.
• 这个工作一天有10,000日圆的报酬。
  This job pays 10,000 yen a day.
• 被判严重违反新的行为准则的青少年将失去免费乘坐公交车的权利，如果想重新取得必须做无报酬的社区工作。
  Bèi pàn yánzhòng wéifǎn xīn de xíngwéizhǔnzé de qīngshàonián jiāng shīqù miǎnfèi chéngzuò gōngjiāochē de quánlì, rúguǒ xiǎng chóngxīn qǔdé bìxū zuò wú bàochou de shèqū gōngzuò.
  Youths who are caught violating the new rules on behaviour will lose their right to free travel, and will have to complete unpaid community work to earn it back.

Words containing 报酬

• 边际报酬biān jì bào chóumarginal returns
• 投资报酬率tóu zī bào chóu lǜreturn on investment; rate of return

Where 报酬 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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