What 赔 means
It means repayment, financial loss, or apology.
赔偿 pays for damage; 赔本 means losing money; 赔不是 means apologizing. 贝 signals money; 咅 supplies the sound.
The Kangxi Dictionary calls 賠 a popular, non-ancient form and records 備/僃 for compensation.
What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readings赔偿／赔款
Someone pays to cover damage.
赔钱／赔本
The speaker or business loses money.
赔礼／赔不是
The speaker apologizes or makes amends.
Don't confuse it with
1Combination ideas
1The 2020 Taiwan Ministry of Education idiom dictionary defines trying to gain an advantage but ending up with a greater loss.
Questions people ask
1Why does 赔 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
How to type 赔
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 8D54, then Alt+X to get 赔.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “cjk unified ideograph-8d54”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 8d54, then Enter or Space.
HTML
赔CSS
\8D54How to type 赔
Pinyin writes Mandarin sounds in Latin letters: type pei in a Chinese input method and select 赔 (péi).
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
赔
HTML hex
赔
CSS content
content: "\8D54";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%B5%94
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.