陪聊 (péiliáo): to keep someone company in chat…

Meanings

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

Characters

陪

Examples

她做过陪聊兼职。

Tā zuò guo péiliáo jiānzhí.

She has worked part-time as a paid chat companion.

网上有很多陪聊服务，但鱼龙混杂。

Wǎngshàng yǒu hěn duō péiliáo fúwù, dàn yúlónghùnzá.

There are many online chat-companion services, but the quality is very mixed.

Tips

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Outwardly innocent — 陪 'accompany' + 聊 '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 陪人聊天 (péi rén liáotiān) or 陪我说说话 (péi wǒ shuōshuo huà) to avoid the implication.

culture

Same 陪- prefix family as 陪酒 péijiǔ (drinking companion) and 陪唱 péichàng (singing companion in KTV) — all originally hostess-bar vocabulary that crossed into general internet usage.