赔 péi
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 贝 — sea shell
- Made of
- 贝 sea shell 咅 to spit out
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
赔偿
péicháng
to compensate
Characters in this word
偿 cháng
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 亻 — man, person
- Made of
- 亻 man, person 尝 to taste
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 我会赔偿你。 Wǒ huì péicháng nǐ. I will compensate you.
- 公司赔偿我。 Gōngsī péicháng wǒ. The company compensates me.
- 他赔偿了我。 Tā péicháng le wǒ. He compensated me.