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  *帮* | 帮* | *帮
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
HSK 1
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  *帮* | 帮* | *帮
old variant of 幫|帮
HSK 1
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  *帮* | 帮* | *帮
old variant of 幫|帮
HSK 1
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  *棒* | 棒* | *棒
stick / club / cudgel / smart / capable / strong / wonderful / classifier for legs of a relay race
HSK 5
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  *轰* | 轰* | *轰
explosion / bang / boom / rumble / to attack / to shoo away / to expel
HSK 7-9
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  *磅* | 磅* | *磅
scale (instrument for weighing) / to weigh / (loanword) pound (unit of weight, about 454 grams) / (printing) point (unit used to measure the size of type) / (Tw) (printing) pound; ream weight (used to describe paper thickness)
HSK 7-9
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  *绑* | 绑* | *绑
to tie / bind or fasten together / to kidnap
HSK 7-9
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  *吧* | 吧* | *吧
bar (loanword) (serving drinks, or providing Internet access etc) / to puff (on a pipe etc) / (onom.) bang / abbr. for 貼吧|贴吧
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  *榜* | 榜* | *榜
notice or announcement / list of names / public roll of successful examinees
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  *邦* | 邦* | *邦
(bound form) country; nation; state
bangs / fringe (hair)
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  *啪* | 啪* | *啪
(onom.) bang / pop / pow
Gaoping, city in 山西 / Cao Bang, Vietnam
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  *傍* | 傍* | *傍
near / approaching / to depend on / (slang) to have an intimate relationship with sb / Taiwan pr. [pang2], [bang1], [bang4]
Liu Bang (256 or 247-195 BC), bandit leader who became first Han emperor Han Gaozu 漢高祖|汉高祖 (reigned 202-195 BC)
bang / thump
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  *蚌* | 蚌* | *蚌
mussel / clam
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  *哗* | 哗* | *哗
(onom.) bang / clang / sound of gurgling, splashing or flowing water / (interjection expressing surprise) wow
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  *擂* | 擂* | *擂
to pound (with a mortar and pestle); to hit (a person); to beat (a drum); to bang on (a door) / (dialect) to scold
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  *榜* | 榜* | *榜
variant of
with a sudden shock, bang etc
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  *镑* | 镑* | *镑
pound (sterling) (loanword)
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  *艕* | 艕* | *艕
two boats fastened side by side
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  *嘣* | 嘣* | *嘣
(onom.) thump / boom / bang
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  *哐* | 哐* | *哐
(onom.) crash; bang; clang
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  *膀* | 膀* | *膀
upper arm / wing
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  *膀* | 膀* | *膀
used in 吊膀子
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  *呯* | 呯* | *呯
(onom.) bang! (gong, gun firing etc)
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  *塝* | 塝* | *塝
the edge / border of a field
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  *砰* | 砰* | *砰
(onom.) bang; thump
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  *浜* | 浜* | *浜
stream / creek
crash / bang
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  *梆* | 梆* | *梆
watchman's rattle
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  *乓* | 乓* | *乓
(onom.) bang
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  *髦* | 髦* | *髦
bang (hair) / fashionable / mane
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  *谤* | 谤* | *谤
to slander / to defame / to speak ill of
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  *嘡* | 嘡* | *嘡
(onom.) clang / bong / bang
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  *咣* | 咣* | *咣
(onom.) bang / door banging shut
loudly / with a loud bang / a loud rumble
lit. secretly crossing the Wei River 渭河 at Chencang (idiom, refers to a stratagem used by Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦 in 206 BC against Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽 of Chu) / fig. to feign one thing while doing another / to cheat under cover of a diversion
(onom.) clang; clatter; bang; crash; clank
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  *嘭* | 嘭* | *嘭
(onom.) bang
lit. Xiang Zhuang performs the sword dance, but his mind is set on Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦 (idiom, refers to plot to kill Liu Bang during the Hongmen feast 鴻門宴|鸿门宴 in 206 BC) / fig. an elaborate deception hiding malicious intent
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  *搒* | 搒* | *搒
to row / oar / Taiwan pr. [beng4]
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  *蒡* | 蒡* | *蒡
used in 牛蒡
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  *髳* | 髳* | *髳
bang (hair) / fashionable / mane
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  *膀* | 膀* | *膀
old variant of
lit. repair the plank road by day while secretly crossing the Wei River 渭河 at Chencang (idiom, refers to a stratagem used by Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦 in 206 BC against Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽 of Chu) / fig. to feign one thing while doing another / to cheat under cover of a diversion
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *玤* | 玤* | *玤
(gem)
Han Xin (-196 BC), famous general of first Han emperor Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦
Xiao He (-193 BC), famous strategist and chancellor, fought on Liu Bang's 劉邦|刘邦 side during the Chu-Han Contention 楚漢戰爭|楚汉战争
to clear a street by banging gongs and shouting loudly (idiom)
Cao Can (-190 BC), second chancellor of Han Dynasty, contributed to its founding by fighting on Liu Bang's 劉邦|刘邦 side during the Chu-Han Contention 楚漢戰爭|楚汉战争 / also pr. [Cao2 Shen1]
(Tw) value for money; bang for your buck
to bump one's head / to kowtow with head-banging on the ground
explosion / bang / sonic boom / engine knock
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  *蜯* | 蜯* | *蜯
variant of
Hongmen feast / (fig.) banquet set up with the aim of murdering a guest / refers to a famous episode in 206 BC when future Han emperor Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦 escaped attempted murder by his rival Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽
Big Bang (cosmology)
Chu-Han Contention (206-202 BC), power struggle between Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦 of Han and Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽 of Chu
to make a continual banging sound / (fig.) to provoke with words
lit. Xiang Zhuang performs the sword dance, but his mind is set on Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦 (idiom); refers to 206 BC plot to murder Liu Bang, aka Duke of Pei 沛公 and the future Han emperor, during a sword dance at the Hongmen feast 鴻門宴|鸿门宴 / an elaborate deception to hide malicious intent
posthumous name of the first Han emperor Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦 (256 or 247-195 BC), reigned 202-195 BC
banging away clumsily in all directions with no overall vision
motor tricycle (onom. bang-bang car)
bangs (hair)
(onom.) bang (door slamming shut etc) / rat-a-tat (knocking on a door etc)


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