弥补 míbǔ▶ remedio; compensar

Stroke order

弥补 is written in 15 strokes across 2 characters.

• 弥 — 8 strokes
• 补 — 7 strokes

Senses

1. to complement
2. to make up for a deficiency

Related words

• 弥漫impregnar; llenar el aire
• 补偿compensar
• 补救remedio
• 补贴subsidio
• 补充suplemento

弥补 is pronounced míbǔ and means “remedio; compensar”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 弥补 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.