帮 (bāng): meaning and stroke order
帮 (bāng) means to help, to assist, to support, for sb (i.e. as a help), hired (as worker).
帮
- Simplified
- 帮
- Traditional
- 幫, 幇, 幚
- Pinyin
- bāng
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Stroke order of 帮
帮
- bāng old variant of 幫|帮[bang1]
- bāng old variant of 幫|帮[bang1]
- bāng to help; to assist
- 9 strokes
- Traditional form: 幇
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Meaning of 帮
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bāng
Traditional 幫
- to help
- to assist
- to support
- for sb (i.e. as a help)
- hired (as worker)
- side (of pail, boat etc)
- outer layer
- upper (of a shoe)
- group
- gang
- clique
- party
- secret society
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bāng
Traditional 幇
- old variant of 幫|帮[bang1]
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bāng
Traditional 幚
- old variant of 幫|帮[bang1]
Radical and structure
- 帮
- Radical 巾 (Kangxi radical 50) · 10 strokes · 邦 on top, 巾 below
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Words with 帮
- 帮助 bāng zhù assistance; aid; to help; to assist
- 帮忙 bāng máng to help; to lend a hand
帮 in our stories
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原来她是田螺变的,看他一个人太辛苦,就来帮他。
yuánlái tā shì tiánluó biàn de kàn tā yí gè rén tài xīnkǔ jiù lái bāng tā
She was the river snail, transformed; she had seen how hard he worked on his own and come to help.
From the story The river-snail girl HSK 4
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一个星期后,纸上写满了字,最多的竟然不是工具,而是“周末谁能帮我遛狗”。
yí gè xīngqī hòu zhǐ shàng xiě mǎn le zì zuì duō de jìngrán bú shì gōngjù érshì zhōumò shéi néng bāng wǒ liù gǒu
A week later the sheets were full, and the most common request wasn't for tools at all, but "Who can walk my dog at the weekend?"
From the story Fifty sheets of paper HSK 5
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程昊是学计算机的,走过去帮她看了看,十分钟就解决了。
Chéng Hào shì xué jìsuànjī de zǒu guòqu bāng tā kàn le kàn shí fēnzhōng jiù jiějué le
Cheng Hao had studied computing. He went over to take a look and fixed it in ten minutes.
From the story The old man who lost his horse HSK 6
Stories using 帮
- The river-snail girl HSK 4
- Fifty sheets of paper HSK 5
- The old man who lost his horse HSK 6
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).