What does 忏悔 mean in Chinese?

忏悔 (chànhuǐ) means to repent.

How do you pronounce 忏悔?

忏悔 is pronounced chànhuǐ.

Is 忏悔 an HSK word?

忏悔 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

忏悔 (chànhuǐ) Meaning: to repent in Chinese

DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to repent

02

(religion) to confess

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 忏悔 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 忏悔 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

2025 年 5 月 14 日，天空多云，间或有蓝色空间。我两次走到圣奥尔本斯路上的罗马天主教堂，一次在早上，一次在下午，这是我今年春天第 12 次和第 13 次。早上，穿著制服的小男孩和小女孩们在宽敞的礼拜堂里忏悔。他们来自不同的种族。神父在告解室和一个学生交谈。在崇拜小堂，我注意到左前方有一盆漂亮的兰花。下午，宽敞的礼拜堂几乎空无一人，我通常更喜欢这种状态。路边有个穿著白色背心的英俊肌肉男在慢跑。那棵开著紫色花朵的大树看起来像一棵皇后树，一棵泡桐，因为它有著大大的心形叶子。它让我想起开著紫色花朵的蓝花楹，让我对南美洲充满了怀念。在提姆霍顿斯咖啡馆，我早上享用了香肠马铃薯炒蛋和一杯燕麦奶伯爵茶，下午又喝了一杯经典冰柠檬水。这一天我都在散步。在家，我学习了一些逻辑语和世界语。我有很多世界语书籍。我的融合主义倾向是万物有灵论和佛教。2025 nián 5 yuè 14 rì， tiān kōng duō yún， jiàn huò yǒu lán sè kōng jiān。 wǒ liǎng cì zǒu dào shèng ào ěr běn sī lù shàng de luó mǎ tiān zhǔ jiào táng， yī cì zài zǎo shàng， yī cì zài xià wǔ， zhè shì wǒ jīn nián chūn tiān dì 12 cì hé dì 13 cì。 zǎo shàng， chuān zhù zhì fú de xiǎo nán hái hé xiǎo nǚ hái men zài kuān chǎng de lǐ bài táng lǐ chàn huǐ。 tā men lái zì bù tóng de zhǒng zú。 shén fù zài gào jiě shì hé yí gè xué shēng jiāo tán。 zài chóng bài xiǎo táng， wǒ zhù yì dào zuǒ qián fāng yǒu yī pén piào liàng de lán huā。 xià wǔ， kuān chǎng de lǐ bài táng jī hū kōng wú yì rén， wǒ tōng cháng gèng xǐ huān zhè zhǒng zhuàng tài。 lù biān yǒu gè chuān zhù bái sè bèi xīn de yīng jùn jī ròu nán zài màn pǎo。 nà kē kāi zhù zǐ sè huā duǒ de dà shù kàn qǐ lái xiàng yī kē huáng hòu shù， yī kē pāo tóng， yīn wèi tā yǒu zhù dà dà de xīn xíng yè zi。 tā ràng wǒ xiǎng qǐ kāi zhù zǐ sè huā duǒ de lán huā yíng， ràng wǒ duì nán měi zhōu chōng mǎn le huái niàn。 zài tí mǔ huò dùn sī kā fēi guǎn， wǒ zǎo shàng xiǎng yòng le xiāng cháng mǎ líng shǔ chǎo dàn hé yī bēi yàn mài nǎi bó jué chá， xià wǔ yòu hē le yī bēi jīng diǎn bīng níng méng shuǐ。 zhè yī tiān wǒ dōu zài sàn bù。 zài jiā， wǒ xué xí le yī xiē luó jí yǔ hé shì jiè yǔ。 wǒ yǒu hěn duō shì jiè yǔ shū jí。 wǒ de róng hé zhǔ yì qīng xiàng shì wàn wù yǒu líng lùn hé fó jiào。

This 14th of May of 2025 is cloudy skies interspersed with blue spaces. I walked to the Roman Catholic church on St. Albans Road twice, once in the morning and again in the afternoon, my 12th and 13th times this spring. In the morning was confession for the little boys and girls in uniform. They were of different races, in the big worship hall. The priest was in the confession booth talking to a student. At the Adoration Chapel, I noticed a nice pot of orchids on the front left. In the afternoon, the big worship hall was mostly empty, a condition which I usually prefer. At the road was a handsome muscle man in white tank top jogging. The big purple-bloom tree seems like an Empress Tree, a Paulownia, because of the big heart-shaped leaves. Reminiscent of Jacaranda with its purple blooming, it's saudade for me about South America. At Tim Hortons café, I enjoyed Scrambled Eggs with Sausage and Potatoes and an Earl Grey Tea with oat milk in the morning, and an Iced Classic Lemonade in the afternoon. The day was full of walking. At home, I study bits of Lojban and Esperanto. I have many books in Esperanto. I tend towards Animism-Buddhism in my Syncretism.

犯错出忏悔心，才能清净无烦恼。fàn cuò chū chàn huǐ xīn， cái néng qīng jìng wú fán nǎo。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 忏悔.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 忏悔.

Directly before

出忏悔1
里忏悔1

Directly after

忏悔心1

ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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