verb #79,469

Meanings

  1. 1 finished; settled; paid in full (bound form)

Examples

Fāpiào shàng gài le shōuqì de zhāng.
The invoice was stamped 'payment received in full'.

Tips

history
is not used freely on its own; it survives in the fixed bookkeeping words 收讫 ('received in full'), 付讫 ('paid in full') and 起讫 ('start and end'). The speech radical marks an act of declaring done; supplies the sound.
register
Formal and clerical. You meet on receipts, invoices and contracts, not in conversation.

Components

radical
yán
speech (left-side form of 言)
is the left-side form of (speech). In it marks the formal declaring that a matter or payment is concluded.
phonetic
phonetic element
supplies the sound for , with the tone shifting; it is the same phonetic seen in and .

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