HSK 6 · Places

畔 pàn “bank (of a river or lake)” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 畔 means

  1. bank (of a river or lake)
  2. side
  3. (bound form) side
  4. edge
  5. boundary

How to say 畔

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale畔pàn4th tone, falling

畔 in a sentence

  1. 英国首都伦敦在泰晤士河畔。

    Yīngguó shǒudū Lúndūn zài Tàiwùshì Hé pàn.

    London, the British capital, lies on the banks of the Thames.

    Sentence #334130 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 畔 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 畔 (pàn) with each of its parts in a different colour
畔pànside; edge; boundary
  • 田field · tián
  • 半half · bàn

How to write 畔

畔 10 strokes

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

Words related to 畔

More words: Places & Geography

井jǐng · well (for water)经纬jīngwěi · longitude and latitude就近jiùjìn · nearby领土lǐngtǔ · territory盆地péndì · basin (geography)偏僻piānpì · remote平原píngyuán · plain坡pō · slope

FAQs

畔 (pàn) means “bank (of a river or lake)” or “side”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it pàn: pàn with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 畔 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type pan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 畔 from the suggestions. Typing pan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
畔 is an HSK 6 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.