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赔 (traditional form 賠) is a phono-semantic compound: the left side is the cowrie shell radical 贝 (貝 in traditional), which relates to wealth and financial transactions, and the right side 咅 indicates the pronunciation. Its primary meaning is to compensate for a financial loss or pay an indemnity, and it later extended to describe a business operating at a loss or failing to turn a profit. The simplification only reduces the traditional radical 貝 to 贝, while the phonetic component 咅 stays identical.
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他做生意赔钱了。
打碎东西要赔偿。
他坚决不赔这笔钱。
战败国支付了巨额赔款。
保险公司会赔付损失。
你应该向他赔礼道歉。
这家店赔本卖货，很奇怪。
法院判决他赔偿精神损失费。
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