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Mythic Mandarin

帮忙 (bāng máng): meaning and stroke order

帮忙 (bāng máng) means to help, to lend a hand, to do a favor, to do a good turn.

帮忙

Simplified
帮忙
Traditional
幫忙
Pinyin
bāng máng

Stroke order of 帮忙

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

Stroke by stroke

忙

  • máng busy; hurriedly
  • 6 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 帮忙

  1. bāng máng Traditional 幫忙
    • to help
    • to lend a hand
    • to do a favor
    • to do a good turn

Radicals of the characters

帮
Radical 巾 (Kangxi radical 50) · 10 strokes · 邦 on top, 巾 below
忙
Radical 心 (Kangxi radical 61) · 6 strokes · 忄 on the left, 亡 on the right

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.

帮忙 in our stories

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  • 太宗答应帮忙，第二天特意拉魏征下了一整天的棋，不让他离开。

    Tàizōng dāying bāngmáng dì-èr tiān tèyì lā Wèi Zhēng xià le yì zhěngtiān de qí bú ràng tā líkāi

    Taizong agreed to help and the next day deliberately kept Wei Zheng playing chess all day so he could not leave.

    From the story The Dragon King of the Jing River HSK 7–9 · Level 7

  • 那年春节，面馆的伙计回老家了，妈妈忙不过来，程朗只好到店里帮忙。

    nà nián Chūnjié miànguǎn de huǒji huí lǎojiā le māma máng bú guòlai Chéng Lǎng zhǐhǎo dào diàn lǐ bāngmáng

    That Spring Festival the shop's helper went home and his mother couldn't cope, so Cheng Lang had to help out in the shop.

    From the story Pulling noodles is a workout too HSK 7–9 · Level 8

  • 几百年后，这本书被翻译成了多种语言，而那群“帮忙破案”的苍蝇，也成了法医学课堂上常被提起的例子。

    jǐbǎi nián hòu zhè běn shū bèi fānyì chéng le duō zhǒng yǔyán ér nà qún bāngmáng pò'àn de cāngying yě chéng le fǎyīxué kètáng shàng cháng bèi tíqǐ de lìzi

    Centuries later the book was translated into many languages, and those flies that "helped solve the case" became an example often mentioned in forensic medicine classes.

    From the story The flies that solved the case HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 帮忙

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).