按揭贷款

按揭貸款
ànjiēdàikuǎn
noun

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 mortgage loan
  2. 2 mortgage

Examples

Tāmen shēnqǐng le sānshí nián de ànjiē dàikuǎn mǎi fáng.
They applied for a thirty-year mortgage loan to buy a house.
Ànjiē dàikuǎn lìlǜ zuìjìn yǒu suǒ xiàtiáo.
Mortgage interest rates have been lowered recently.

Tips

memory
按揭 is a phonetic loan from Cantonese, transliterating English "mortgage" — introduced via Hong Kong in the reform era. So 按揭贷款 is literally "mortgage-loan," partly redundant but fully naturalized. The native synonym is 抵押贷款.

Stroke Order

àn
jiē
dài
kuǎn