弥补 míbǔ▶ obat; mengimbangi

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meresap; memenuhi udara
• 补偿mengkompensasi
• 补救obat
• 补贴subsidi
• 补充suplemen

弥补 is pronounced míbǔ and means “obat; mengimbangi”. 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.