HSK 6 · Sport

攀登 pāndēng “to climb” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 攀登 means

  1. to climb
  2. to scale
  3. to pull oneself up
  4. to clamber
  5. fig. to forge ahead in the face of hardships and danger

How to say 攀登

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale攀pān1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale登dēng1st tone, high and level

攀登 in a sentence

  1. 我们想攀登富士山。

    Wǒmen xiǎng pāndēng Fùshì Shān.

    We want to climb Mount Fuji.

    Sentence #13575868 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  2. 他曾四次攀登富士山。

    Tā céng sì cì pāndēng Fùshì Shān.

    He has climbed Mount Fuji four times.

    Sentence #13575861 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 他们放弃了攀登富士山的计划。

    Tāmen fàngqì le pāndēng Fùshì Shān de jìhuà.

    They gave up their plan to climb Mount Fuji.

    Sentence #13575867 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 攀登 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 攀 (pān) with each of its parts in a different colour
攀pānto climb
  • 樊railing · fánSound part
  • 手hand · shǒuMeaning part

手 hints at the meaning (hand); 樊 (fán) hints at the sound. Compare it with pān.

The character 登 (dēng) with each of its parts in a different colour
登dēngto scale
  • 癶footsteps · bōMeaning part
  • 豆bean · dòuSound part

癶 hints at the meaning (footsteps); 豆 (dòu) hints at the sound. Compare it with dēng.

How to write 攀登

攀 19 strokes · 登 12 strokes

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

Words related to 攀登

Words with 登

登机牌dēngjīpái · boarding pass登记dēngjì · to register (one’s name)登录dēnglù · to log in刊登kāndēng · to publish (in a newspaper or magazine)登陆dēnglù · to land

More words: Sport & Leisure

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FAQs

攀登 (pāndēng) means “to climb” or “to scale”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it pāndēng: pān with a 1st tone, then dēng with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 攀登 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type pandeng with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 攀登 from the suggestions. Typing pandeng into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
攀登 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.