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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *債* | 債* | *債
debt / CL: 筆|笔
HSK 6
in arrears / behind in payments / to default on one's debts
HSK 7-9
to prevent / to avoid / to excuse / to exempt / to relieve / (of a debt) to remit
HSK 7-9
hole / pocket / cavity / loophole / debt
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *賬* | 賬* | *賬
account / bill / debt / CL: , 筆|笔
HSK 6
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *賴* | 賴* | *賴
to depend on / to hang on in a place / bad / to renege (on promise) / to disclaim / to rat (on debts) / rascally / to blame / to put the blame on
HSK 6
debt of blood (after killing sb)
to go ashore; to climb ashore / (fig.) to achieve a stable and secure life after a period of struggle (e.g. to get a government job, be admitted to a desirable university, or finally pay off one's debts)
lit. build a high desk of debt (idiom); heavily in debt
debt / liability / amount due / indebtedness
HSK 7-9
debt of gratitude coupled with duty to avenge
to owe a debt / debt / obligation
to share profits (or debt)
IOU / informal document acknowledging a debt
debt of gratitude
to owe a debt / balance due / debts
to urge sb to provide sth / (esp.) to press (for payment of a debt); debt collection
to be deeply in (trouble, debt etc) / deep set (eyes)
to repay one's debt
balance due / small balance still to pay / final remaining debt
(coll.) debt dodger
bad debt
to be in debt / to incur debts / liability (finance)
debt security; bond security
to pay a debt of gratitude / to repay a kindness
to arrange (colloquial) / to transfer creditor's rights (in a debt case)
to own up to a fault / to admit the truth / to acknowledge a debt
crop failure / famine / debt / difficulty
liabilities / debt
rent and debt
A debt of blood must be paid in blood. / Blood calls for blood.
credit card debt
an old debt; a longstanding debt
(law) judgement defaulter (person who has failed to fulfill obligations set forth in a written court judgement, such as paying compensation to sb, despite having the means to do so) / debt dodger
triangular debt
to reduce payment / to annul (debts, bills, taxes etc) / to let sb off paying
to extend the period / to reschedule (a debt)
a debt of blood must be paid in blood; blood calls for blood / also pr. [xue4 zhai4 xie3 chang2]
(medical) compensation / to repay a debt or obligation in place of sb else
receipt for a loan / written confirmation of a debt / IOU
collateralized debt obligation (CDO), type of bond
ensure that you pay debts of gratitude (idiom)
to fall deeper and deeper (in debt, in love etc)
debt instrument
convertible debt / convertible bond
A debt of blood must be paid in blood. / Blood calls for blood.
to demand payment of a debt; to collect a debt
to press for payment of debts / to dun
for every grievance someone is responsible, for every debt there is a debtor (idiom) / when settling disputes one should not involve third parties
to pay back in full / to redeem a debt
to owe a debt / the sum owed
to settle a debt
(fig.) to use sex to pay off (a debt)
bad debt
to demand repayment of debt
long-standing debt
debt of blood (after killing sb)
(of wine) aged / (of debts etc) old; longstanding
compound interest (esp. in loans, snowballing debt)
to repay a debt
to renege on a debt
to evade (repayment of debts)
dead loan / bad debts / to refuse to pay loan
debt
debts of blood crying out for retribution
lit. love debt / fig. moral obligation in consequence of a love affair / karmic consequences of a love affair
debt nurtures more debt (idiom)
foreign debt
to default on a debt
to repay a debt in kind or by labor
to have paid one's karmic debts (Buddhism)
disorganized accounts / uncollectable debts; bad debt
national debt / government debt
to repay a debt in kind or by labor
in debt / in the red / in deficit
to disobey one's benefactor / to violate debts of gratitude / to repay good with evil
bad debt
lit. when covered with lice, one doesn't feel the itching anymore, and when up to one's ears in debt, one ceases to worry about it (saying) / fig. to be past worrying (about sth)
to repay debts of gratitude / to repay kindness
to avoid going home for the Chinese New Year (for any of various reasons: because one finds the festivities onerous in some way, or because it would be seen as inauspicious for one to attend, or, in former times, to avoid creditors, since it was the custom to have debts settled before New Year's Day, and once into the New Year, debtors got a reprieve)
unrecoverable debt / bad debt / to evade debt
forced labor to repay a debt
to be in debt / to be saddled with debts
(of an illness, debt etc) to plague one; to bog one down; to preoccupy one
lit. old account / old debt / fig. old scores to settle / old quarrels / old grudge
debt as heavy as a mountain on a turtle's back
to repay; to pay off a debt
deep in debt
receipt for a loan / written confirmation of a debt / IOU
lit. old account / old debt / fig. old scores to settle / old quarrels / old grudge
debt-ridden / heavily laden with debt
lit. when up to one's ears in debt, one ceases to worry about it (idiom) / fig. to be past worrying (about sth)
to repay a debt in full / to redeem / to clear
to demand repayment / to collect debt


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