酬
chóu HSK7

toast

酬 chóu
reward verb
to compensate or reward someone for their work, help, or services

如果你能帮我办成这件事，事后必有重酬。

rú​guǒ nǐ néng bāng wǒ bàn​chéng zhè jiàn shì, shì​hòu bì yǒu zhòng chóu.

If you can help me get this done, there will be a generous reward afterwards.

reply verb
to respond or answer, especially in the context of reciprocal poetry or correspondence

老友寄来一幅画，我正考虑该拿什么礼物去酬他。

lǎo​yǒu jì​lái yī fú huà, wǒ zhèng kǎo​lǜ gāi ná shén​me lǐ​wù qù chóu tā.

An old friend sent a painting, and I'm considering what gift to give him in return.

entertain verb
to host guests or engage in social interactions and formalities

他在酒席上与客人们虚酬了几句，便借故离开了。

tā zài jiǔ​xí shàng yǔ kè​rén men xū​chóu le jǐ jù, biàn jiè​gù lí​kāi le.

He exchanged a few pleasantries with the guests at the banquet and then left on an excuse.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,005th most common 36.2 per million
Movie subtitles
2,186th most common 14.3 per million appears in 8% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.10 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
10.9 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
13
Unicode
U+916C

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)