There are mothers and fathers who will lie awake after the children fall asleep and wonder how they'll make the mortgage, or pay their doctor's bills, or save enough for their child's college education.
按揭
a mortgage (loanword via Cantonese)
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Meaning and common use
a mortgage (loanword via Cantonese)
to buy property on a mortgage
How 按揭 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 按揭 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
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Words that keep company with 按揭.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 按揭.
Directly before
- 偿还按揭1
- 用按揭1
Directly after
- 按揭月1
- 按揭办法1
- 按揭买车1
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.
About 按揭
What does 按揭 mean in Chinese?
按揭 (ànjiē) means a mortgage (loanword via Cantonese).
How do you pronounce 按揭?
按揭 is pronounced ànjiē.
Is 按揭 an HSK word?
按揭 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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