(péi) - accompany, keep company in Mandarin
péiTraditional: 陪
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
陪
Examples
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I will accompany you to the hospital.
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She kept the children company while they played.
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Thank you for accompanying me.
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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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