HSK 6 · Objects

帐篷 zhàngpeng “tent” in Chinese

Traditional 帳篷

What 帐篷 means

  1. tent

Measure word 顶 dǐng or 座 zuò · 一顶帐篷 yì dǐng zhàngpeng

How to say 帐篷

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale帐zhàng4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own篷pengneutral tone, light and short

Grey pinyin is a neutral tone: say it short and light. More on the neutral tone

帐篷 in a sentence

  1. 我们搭了帐篷。

    Wǒmen dā le zhàngpeng.

    We put up the tent.

    Sentence #9779613 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 学校会提供帐篷给我们。

    Xuéxiào huì tígōng zhàngpeng gěi wǒmen.

    The school will provide us with tents.

    Sentence #8591227 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 这是搭帐篷的好地方。

    Zhè shì dā zhàngpeng de hǎo dìfang.

    This is a good spot to pitch a tent.

    Sentence #5650538 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 帐篷 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 帐 (zhàng) with each of its parts in a different colour
帐zhàngcurtain; tent; canopy
  • 巾napkin · jīnMeaning part
  • 长long · chángSound part

巾 hints at the meaning (napkin); 长 (cháng) hints at the sound. Compare it with zhàng.

The character 篷 (péng) with each of its parts in a different colour
篷péngsaillight in 帐篷
  • ⺮bamboo form of 竹 · zhúMeaning part
  • 逢to happen to meet · féngSound part

⺮ hints at the meaning (bamboo); 逢 (féng) hints at the sound. Compare it with peng.

How to write 帐篷

帐 7 strokes · 篷 16 strokes

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

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FAQs

帐篷 (zhàngpeng) means “tent”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it zhàngpeng: zhàng with a 4th tone, then peng with a neutral 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, 帐篷 is written 帳篷. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 顶 (dǐng) or 座 (zuò). For example, one tent is 一顶帐篷 (yì dǐng zhàngpeng).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zhangpeng with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 帐篷 from the suggestions. Typing zhangpeng into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
帐篷 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.