HSK 5 · Body

肩膀 jiānbǎng “shoulder” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 肩膀 means

  1. shoulder

How to say 肩膀

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale肩jiān1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale膀bǎng3rd tone, dipping

肩膀 in a sentence

  1. 他拍了拍我的肩膀。

    Tā pāi le pāi wǒ de jiānbǎng.

    He patted me on the shoulder.

    Sentence #2299517 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我昨天肩膀受伤了。

    Wǒ zuótiān jiānbǎng shòushāng le.

    I hurt my shoulder yesterday.

    Sentence #13994933 from Tatoeba

  3. 这些鸽子不怕人，能落在人的肩膀上。

    Zhèxiē gēzi bú pà rén, néng luò zài rén de jiānbǎng shàng.

    These pigeons aren’t afraid of people and will land on their shoulders.

    Sentence #1584123 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 肩膀 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 肩 (jiān) with each of its parts in a different colour
肩jiānshoulder
  • 户door · hù
  • ⺼meat form of 肉 · ròu
The character 膀 (bǎng) with each of its parts in a different colour
膀bǎngupper arm
  • ⺼meat form of 肉 · ròu
  • 旁side · páng

How to write 肩膀

肩 8 strokes · 膀 14 strokes

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

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

Words related to 肩膀

Words with 膀

翅膀chìbǎng · wing

More words: People, Body & Health

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FAQs

肩膀 (jiānbǎng) means “shoulder”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it jiānbǎng: jiān with a 1st tone, then bǎng with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 肩膀 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type jianbang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 肩膀 from the suggestions. Typing jianbang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
肩膀 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.