HSK 3.0 Level 2 · Everyday Verbs

帮 bāng “to help” in Chinese

Traditional 幫

What 帮 means

  1. to help
  2. to assist
  3. to support
  4. for sb (i.e. as a help)
  5. hired (as worker)
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • side (of pail, boat etc)

How to say 帮

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale帮bāng1st tone, high and level

帮 in a sentence

  1. 帮我一下。

    Bāng wǒ yíxià.

    Give me a hand.

    Sentence #332800 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 昨天我帮了我爸爸。

    Zuótiān wǒ bāng le wǒ bàba.

    I helped my father yesterday.

    Sentence #344180 from Tatoeba

  3. 你能帮我拿这个行李箱吗？

    Nǐ néng bāng wǒ ná zhè ge xínglǐxiāng ma?

    Could you help me carry this suitcase?

    Sentence #604486 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 帮 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 帮 (bāng) with each of its parts in a different colour
帮bāngto help
  • 邦country · bāng
  • 巾napkin · jīn

Memory aidCloth 巾 with 邦 (bāng) for the sound: to help.

How to write 帮

帮 9 strokes

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

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

Words related to 帮

Words with 帮

帮助bāngzhù · to help帮忙bāngmáng · to help

More words: Everyday Verbs

开车kāichē · to drive a car睡shuì · to sleep听见tīngjiàn · to hear做饭zuòfàn · to prepare a meal打dǎ · to hit打开dǎkāi · to open动dòng · to move飞fēi · to fly

FAQs

帮 (bāng) means “to help” or “to assist”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 2 word.
Say it bāng: bāng with a 1st 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, 帮 is written 幫. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type bang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 帮 from the suggestions. Typing bang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
帮 is an HSK 3.0 Level 2 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 2 word list. It is not on the older 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.