Japanese symbol for “indemnification”
代償
だいしょう
Romaji: daishou
compensation; reparation; indemnification
In Japanese, indemnification is 代償, read だいしょう (daishou).
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Meanings
- n compensation; reparation; indemnification
- n price (of achieving a goal); cost
- n paying compensation on someone's behalf
- n compensation (biol)
- n compensation; substitution (psych)
Kanji and stroke order
Other Japanese words for “indemnification”
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 弁償 | べんしょう benshou | compensation; indemnification; reparation |
Related words
Words that share a kanji.
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 時代 | じだい jidai | period; epoch; era |
| 代表 | だいひょう daihyou | representation; representative; delegate |
| 現代 | げんだい gendai | present age; present day; contemporary |
| 代わり | かわり kawari | substitute; replacement; substituting |
| 世代 | せだい sedai | generation |
| 年代 | ねんだい nendai | age; era; period |
| 賠償 | ばいしょう baishou | compensation; reparations; indemnity |
| 補償 | ほしょう hoshou | compensation; reparation |
Data: JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0); KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.