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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

还债

huánzhài

to settle a debt

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to settle a debt

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 还债 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 还债 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

我得还债。wǒ dé huán zhài。

I must repay the debt.

你有义务还债。nǐ yǒu yì wù huán zhài。

You are liable for the debt.

你只需要喊他还债就行。nǐ zhǐ xū yào hǎn tā huán zhài jiù xíng。

All you have to do is ask him to pay the debt.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 还债.

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

Directly before

  • 义务还债1
  • 得还债1
  • 他还债1

Directly after

  • 还债就行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.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 还债

What does 还债 mean in Chinese?

还债 (huánzhài) means to settle a debt.

How do you pronounce 还债?

还债 is pronounced huánzhài.

Is 还债 an HSK word?

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

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