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赔偿

péi cháng

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 賠償

赔偿 (péi cháng) means "to compensate". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 赔偿 means

1. to compensate

The characters in 赔偿

• 赔péito compensate for loss; to indemnify; to suffer a financial loss
• 偿chángto repay; to compensate for; to recompense

Example sentences

• 他们状告政府赔偿损失。
  Tāmen zhuànggào zhèngfǔ péicháng sǔnshī.
  They sued the government for damages.
• 你需要赔偿他损失的钱。
  You must compensate him for the money he lost.
• 若有人争斗，一人以石头或拳头打了邻人，虽未致死，却使其卧床不起：若其后能起身、扶杖行走于外，则打人者可免于刑责，但须赔偿对方因此耽误的工钱，并承担其医治的费用。
  If men quarrel, and the one strike his neighbour with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed: If he rise again and walk abroad upon his staff, he that struck him shall be quit, yet so that he make restitution for his work, and for his expenses upon the physicians.

Words starting with 赔偿

• 赔偿金péi cháng jīncompensation

Where 赔偿 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Compensation, Evaluation & Admiration (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read péi cháng correctly.
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