抱歉 bàoqiàn▶ sentir pena, lamentar

Stroke order

抱歉 is written in 22 strokes across 2 characters.

• 抱 — 8 strokes
• 歉 — 14 strokes

Senses

1. to be sorry
2. to feel apologetic
3. sorry!

Example sentences

• 很抱歉，我来晚了。Hěn bàoqiàn, wǒ lái wǎn le.I am very sorry, I came late.
• 他对这件事很抱歉。Tā duì zhè jiàn shì hěn bàoqiàn.He feels very sorry about this matter.

Related words

• 抱Sostener
• 道歉disculparse
• 抱怨Quejarse
• 拥抱abrazar
• 抱负ambición

抱歉 is pronounced bàoqiàn and means “sentir pena, lamentar”. You will meet it in HSK 4, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 抱歉 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.