Insurance in Chinese
insurance · HSK 5
保险
- 保 to protect
- 险 danger
Counted with 份: 一份保险
我给自己的车买了保险。 I bought insurance for my car.
Other ways to say insurance
More words with 保 or 险
How do you say insurance in Chinese?
Insurance in Chinese is 保险 (bǎo xiǎn). You can also say 险 (xiǎn).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
Our own dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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