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(péi) - accompany, keep company in Mandarin

péi

Traditional: 陪

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HSK 4
#792 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

accompany, keep company

Word origin

陪 (péi) combines 阝, the mound or hill radical, with 咅 (pǒu) as the phonetic. The radical originally related to raised earth or a wall, and the character came to mean 'to accompany' or 'keep company with'.

Origin
phono-semantic compound
Root
阝(mound radical) + 咅 (pǒu, phonetic)

Stroke order

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Examples

I will accompany you to the hospital.

She kept the children company while they played.

Thank you for accompanying me.

Mum plays with the child.

陪 (péi) means accompany, keep company. It is used as a verb in everyday Mandarin speech.

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This word is part of lesson 16.