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Mythic Mandarin

报答 (bào dá): meaning and stroke order

报答 (bào dá) means to repay, to requite.

报答

Simplified
报答
Traditional
報答
Pinyin
bào dá

Stroke order of 报答

报

  • bào to report; to inform; to announce; to respond; to reply
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 報

Stroke by stroke

答

  • dā bound form having the same meaning as the free word 答[da2], used in 答應|答应[da1 ying5], 答理[da1 li5] etc
  • dá to answer; to reply
  • 12 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 报答

  1. bào dá Traditional 報答
    • to repay
    • to requite

Radicals of the characters

报
Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 7 strokes · 扌 on the left, 𠬝 on the right
答
Radical 竹 (Kangxi radical 118) · 12 strokes · 𥫗 on top, 合 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

报答 in our stories

Preview version — Chinese review in progress.

  • 重耳喝完汤，知道了真相，感动得流下了眼泪：“将来我若回国，一定报答你。”

    Chóng'ěr hē wán tāng zhīdao le zhēnxiàng gǎndòng de liú xià le yǎnlèi jiānglái wǒ ruò huíguó yídìng bàodá nǐ

    When Chong'er finished the soup and learned the truth, he wept: "If I ever return home, I will surely repay you."

    From the story Cold Food Day and Qingming HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 报答

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).