答辩 dábiàn▶ membalas; menjawab

Stroke order

答辩 is written in 28 strokes across 2 characters.

• 答 — 12 strokes
• 辩 — 16 strokes

Senses

1. to reply (to an accusation)
2. to defend one's dissertation

Related words

• 报答membalas; membayar kembali; melunasi
• 答复Menjawab; Balasan
• 辩护Membela
• 辩解Menjelaskan
• 辩证dialektis
• 答应janji

答辩 is pronounced dábiàn and means “membalas; menjawab”. It belongs to the HSK 6 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 答辩 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.