HSK 3 · Adjectives

胖 pàng “fat” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 胖 means

  1. fat
  2. plump

How to say 胖

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale胖pàng4th tone, falling

胖 in a sentence

  1. 我最近胖了。

    Wǒ zuìjìn pàng le.

    I’ve put on weight recently.

    Sentence #669066 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 这个夏天我胖了两公斤。

    Zhè ge xiàtiān wǒ pàng le liǎng gōngjīn.

    I put on two kilos this summer.

    Sentence #8832014 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 我们的猫很胖。

    Wǒmen de māo hěn pàng.

    Our cat is fat.

    Sentence #10192181 from Tatoeba

How 胖 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 胖 (pàng) with each of its parts in a different colour
胖pàngfat
  • ⺼meat form of 肉 · ròuMeaning part
  • 半half · bànSound part

⺼ hints at the meaning (meat); 半 (bàn) hints at the sound. Compare it with pàng.

How to write 胖

胖 9 strokes

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

Words related to 胖

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FAQs

胖 (pàng) means “fat” or “plump”. It is an HSK 3 word.
Say it pàng: pàng with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 胖 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type pang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 胖 from the suggestions. Typing pang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
胖 is an HSK 3 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.