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Chinese symbol for “payback”

回报
huí bào
Traditional: 回報
(in) return; reciprocation; payback; retaliation

The closest CC-CEDICT match for payback is 回报 (huí bào), defined as: (in) return; reciprocation; payback; retaliation; to report back; to reciprocate.

Before using these characters for a tattoo, check them with a native speaker. Dictionary words often have several meanings, and the right choice depends on context.

Characters and stroke order

回 huí
to return, to turn around; a time
radical 31 ⼞ · 6 strokes
报 bào
to announce, to report; newspaper; payback, revenge
radical 64 ⼿ · 7 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 回报.

WordPinyinMeaning
回来 (回來)huí laito return; to come back
回到huí dàoto return to
回家huí jiāto return home
回答huí dáto reply; to answer; reply; answer
回应 (回應)huí yìngto respond; response
回去huí quto return; to go back
报告 (報告)bào gàoto inform; to report
报道 (報道)bào dàoto report (news); report

See also: Japanese symbol for “payback”.

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.

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