报复
bào​fù HSK7

to retaliate

报复 報復 bào​fù
to retaliate verbnoun
to retaliate; to seek revenge; to strike back against someone who has harmed your interests; retaliation; reprisal

你本可以出于爱而不是为了报复而结婚。

nǐ běn kě​yǐ chū​yú ài ér bù​shì wèi​le bào​fù ér jié hūn.

You could have married for love instead of revenge.

to report back
(archaic) to report back after an investigation; to notify or announce
to repay
(archaic) to repay a kindness or a debt of gratitude
to cycle
(literary) to cycle back or repeat, like the rotation of celestial bodies or the alternation of seasons
to respond
(archaic) to receive and respond to visitors or correspondence

Frequency
Movie subtitles
27.2 per million appears in 10% of films
Written text
13.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7

Cross-References

Synonym

Sources
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)