Chinese symbol for “loan”
贷款
dài kuǎn
Traditional: 貸款
a loan; 笔 (bǐ); to provide a loan (e.g. bank); to raise a loan (from e.g. a bank)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for loan is 贷款 (dài kuǎn), defined as: a loan; 笔 (bǐ); to provide a loan (e.g. bank); to raise a loan (from e.g. a bank).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “loan”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 贷款.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 信贷 (信貸) | xìn dài | credit; borrowed money |
| 借贷 (借貸) | jiè dài | to borrow or lend money; debit and credit items on a balance sheet |
| 房贷 (房貸) | fáng dài | home loan |
| 高利贷 (高利貸) | gāo lì dài | high-interest loan; usury |
| 放贷 (放貸) | fàng dài | to provide loans |
| 条款 (條款) | tiáo kuǎn | clause (of contract or law); 项 (xiàng) |
| 罚款 (罰款) | fá kuǎn | to fine; penalty |
| 存款 | cún kuǎn | to deposit money (in a bank etc); bank savings |
See also: Japanese symbol for “loan”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.