Skip to content
BishuРусскийTrain

抱歉bàoqiànto be sorry; apologetic

Theme
Feelings
Level
HSK 4
Strokes
22
Characters
2

How 抱歉 is written

Stroke order matters: it sets the proportions of the character and how a reader will parse it. In the trainer these same boxes reject a stroke drawn out of turn.

抱 — 8 strokes, in writing order from left to right.
歉 — 14 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

Build a practice sheet with 抱歉

Examples

很抱歉，我来晚了。

Hěn bàoqiàn, wǒ lái wǎn le.

I'm sorry, I am late.

  • 很hěnvery
  • 抱歉bàoqiànto be sorry; apologetic
  • 我wǒI
  • 来láito come
  • 晚wǎnlate
  • 了lecompleted action marker

他对这件事很抱歉。

Tā duì zhè jiàn shì hěn bàoqiàn.

He is very sorry about this.

  • 他tāhe
  • 对duìcorrect; towards
  • 这zhèthis
  • 件jiànmeasure word: item, piece
  • 事shìmatter; affair
  • 很hěnvery
  • 抱歉bàoqiànto be sorry; apologetic

Not to be confused with

Characters that look or sound alike. The trainer mixes them into the answer options for exactly that reason — so the difference sticks.

  • 道歉
  • 抱怨
  • 包括