Chinese word dictionary

赊欠

shē qiàn · to offer credit; credit transaction; to buy or sell on account

Practice word

Word information

Simplified赊欠

Traditional賒欠

Pinyinshē qiàn

Part of speechDictionary

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HSK 2.0Not listed

Character breakdown

Study each Hanzi separately, then return to the complete word so pronunciation, meaning, and movement stay connected.

赊shē

to buy and sell on credit

欠qiàn

to lack, to owe; to breathe, to yawn

How to learn 赊欠

Listen once without reading, repeat the pinyin with its tones, then write every character in sequence. Finally, recall the complete meaning instead of memorizing each character as an isolated translation.

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Related vocabulary

Words with the same characters

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欠qiàn

to owe; to lack; (literary) to be deficient in; (bound form) yawn; to raise slightly (a part of one's body)

欠缺qiànquē

to be deficient in; lapse; deficiency

欠条qiàntiáo

IOU; certificate of indebtedness

拖欠tuōqiàn

in arrears; behind in payments; to default on one's debts