HSK 6 · Verbs

奔波 bēnbō “to rush about” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 奔波 means

  1. to rush about
  2. to be constantly on the go
  3. to be constantly on the move

How to say 奔波

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale奔bēn1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale波bō1st tone, high and level

奔波 in a sentence

  1. 在一整天工作的奔波中，她的腿变得酸痛。

    Zài yì zhěngtiān gōngzuò de bēnbō zhōng, tā de tuǐ biàn de suāntòng.

    After a whole day rushing around at work, her legs ached.

    Sentence #13943178 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 奔波 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 奔 (bēn) with each of its parts in a different colour
奔bēnto hurry
  • 大big · dà
  • 卉general term for plants · huì
The character 波 (bō) with each of its parts in a different colour
波bōwave
  • 氵water form of 水 · shuǐMeaning part
  • 皮skin · píSound part

氵 hints at the meaning (water); 皮 (pí) hints at the sound. Compare it with bō.

How to write 奔波

奔 8 strokes · 波 8 strokes

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

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

Words related to 奔波

Words with 奔

奔驰bēnchí · to speed

Words with 波

波浪bōlàng · wave波涛bōtāo · great waves

More words: Common Verbs

暴露bàolù · to expose包围bāowéi · to surround爆炸bàozhà · to explode背叛bèipàn · to betray奔驰bēnchí · to speed蹦bèng · to jump迸发bèngfā · to burst out崩溃bēngkuì · to collapse

FAQs

奔波 (bēnbō) means “to rush about” or “to be constantly on the go”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it bēnbō: bēn with a 1st tone, then bō with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 奔波 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type benbo with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 奔波 from the suggestions. Typing benbo into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
奔波 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.