He wants to pay off his loan.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
还清
to pay back in full
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to pay back in full
02
to redeem a debt
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 还清 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 还清 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
It makes sense to pay off your credit card balance every month.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 还清.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 还清.
Directly before
- 月还清1
- 麽还清1
- 想还清1
Directly after
- 还清信用卡1
- 还清呢1
- 还清贷款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 还清
What does 还清 mean in Chinese?
还清 (huánqīng) means to pay back in full.
How do you pronounce 还清?
还清 is pronounced huánqīng.
Is 还清 an HSK word?
还清 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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