HSK 5 · Science

键盘 jiànpán “keyboard” in Chinese

Traditional 鍵盤

What 键盘 means

  1. keyboard

How to say 键盘

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale键jiàn4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale盘pán2nd tone, rising

键盘 in a sentence

  1. 我的猫喜欢我的键盘。

    Wǒ de māo xǐhuan wǒ de jiànpán.

    My cat likes my keyboard.

    Sentence #9535961 from Tatoeba

  2. 他用键盘作曲。

    Tā yòng jiànpán zuòqǔ.

    He composes music on a keyboard.

    Sentence #13971863 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 我在乐队里担任键盘手。

    Wǒ zài yuèduì lǐ dānrèn jiànpánshǒu.

    I’m the keyboard player in the band.

    Sentence #14061603 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 键盘 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 键 (jiàn) with each of its parts in a different colour
键jiànkey
  • 钅gold form of 金 · jīnMeaning part
  • 建to build · jiànSound part

钅 hints at the meaning (gold); 建 (jiàn) hints at the sound. Compare it with jiàn.

The character 盘 (pán) with each of its parts in a different colour
盘pántray; plate; dish
  • 舟boat · zhōu
  • 皿dish · mǐnMeaning part

皿 hints at the meaning (dish); 般 (bān) hints at the sound. Compare it with pán.

How to write 键盘

键 13 strokes · 盘 11 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

键盘 (jiànpán) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 键盘 (jiànpán). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 键盘

Words with 键

关键guānjiàn · crucial point

Words with 盘

盘子pánzi · plate光盘guāngpán · compact disc (CD)盘旋pánxuán · to circle

More words: Science & Technology

充电器chōngdiànqì · battery charger电池diànchí · battery复制fùzhì · to duplicate机器jīqì · machine浏览liúlǎn · to skim over录音lùyīn · to record (sound)麦克风màikèfēng · microphone (loanword)软件ruǎnjiàn · (computer) software

FAQs

键盘 (jiànpán) means “keyboard”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it jiànpán: jiàn with a 4th tone, then pán with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 键盘 is written 鍵盤. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type jianpan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 键盘 from the suggestions. Typing jianpan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
键盘 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.