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赊

shē

Character Traditional 賒

What 赊 means

1. to buy or sell on credit
2. distant
3. long (time)
4. to forgive

Example sentences

• 别赊账买东西。
  Bié shēzhàng mǎidōngxi.
  Don't buy things on credit.
• 我买贵的东西时总是赊帐。
  Wǒ mǎi guì de dōngxi shí zǒngshì shēzhàng.
  I always buy expensive items on credit.

Words starting with 赊

• 赊欠shē qiànto offer credit; credit transaction; to buy or sell on account
• 赊账shē zhàngto buy or sell on credit; outstanding account; to have an outstanding account
• 赊购shē gòuto buy on credit; to delay payment
• 赊销shē xiāocredit transaction; to sell on account
• 赊帐shē zhàngvariant of 赊账

Characters that look like 赊

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

• 赔péito compensate for loss; to indemnify; to suffer a financial loss
• 揪jiūto seize; to clutch; to grab firmly and pull
• 脓nóngpus
• 跄qiāngwalk rapidly
• 殓liànto prepare a dead body for coffin
• 眭suīto have a deep or piercing gaze

Sounds the same

Read shē, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 奢extravagant
• 畲She ethnic group
• 猞used in 猞猁; Taiwan pr. shè
• 檨mango
• 畬(literary) slash-and-burn agriculture
• 𪨶old variant of 畲
• 奓old variant of 奢