陪聊

péiliáo
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 to keep someone company in chatting
  2. 2 to be a chat companion (often paid; may carry an escort/sex-work connotation)

Examples

HSK 6
Tā zuò guo péiliáo jiānzhí.
She has worked part-time as a paid chat companion.
HSK 6
Wǎngshàng yǒu hěnduō péiliáo fúwù, dàn yúlónghùnzá.
There are many online chat-companion services, but the quality is very mixed.

Tips

register
Outwardly innocent - 'accompany' + 'chat' - but in practice carries a strong gray-market connotation: paid chat-companion / online escort / phone-sex-adjacent service. In purely friendly contexts speakers prefer 聊天 or 说说 to avoid the implication.
culture
Same - prefix family as 陪酒 (drinking companion) and 陪唱 (singing companion in KTV) - all originally hostess-bar vocabulary that crossed into general internet usage.

Stroke Order

péi
liáo