Chinese Character Wiki

偿

cháng

repay

Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 尝 represents the sound. Simplified form of 償.

Components
亻 meaning component

亻  Meaning component

rén

  

person

亻 is a component form of 人.

尝 sound component

尝  Sound component

cháng

  

taste

Evolution

偿 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
偿 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
偿 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
偿 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
偿 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

偿 (償) 

cháng

repay, recompense; restitution; to repay; to compensate for; to recompense; to fulfill (hopes etc)

Most common words with 偿
Freq.
Word
Meaning

补偿

to compensate

赔偿

to compensate

偿还

to repay

偿

to repay

无偿

free

Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 18.7890% of movies

1617th most common character in movies

1329th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Traditional

償

Unicode

U+507F


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