HSK 3 · Places

银行 yínháng “bank” in Chinese

Traditional 銀行

What 银行 means

  1. bank

Measure word 家 jiā or 个 gè · 一家银行 yì jiā yínháng

How to say 银行

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale银yín2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale行háng2nd tone, rising

银行 in a sentence

  1. 银行什么时候关门？

    Yínháng shénme shíhou guānmén?

    When does the bank close?

    Sentence #10193696 from Tatoeba

  2. 我必须到银行去。

    Wǒ bìxū dào yínháng qù.

    I have to go to the bank.

    Sentence #7772603 from Tatoeba

  3. 地铁站的附近有银行吗？

    Dìtiězhàn de fùjìn yǒu yínháng ma?

    Is there a bank near the station?

    Sentence #602929 from Tatoeba

How 银行 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 银 (yín) with each of its parts in a different colour
银yínsilver
  • 钅gold form of 金 · jīnMeaning part
  • 艮stopping · gěnSound part

钅 hints at the meaning (gold); 艮 (gěn) hints at the sound. Compare it with yín.

The character 行 (háng) with each of its parts in a different colour
行hángrow; line
  • 彳step · chì
  • 亍to take small steps · chù

Memory aidDrawn from a crossroads: to walk, to go. It also means a row or line (háng).

How to write 银行

银 11 strokes · 行 6 strokes

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

Words related to 银行

Words with 银

银行卡yínhángkǎ · bank card银yín · silver

Words with 行

不行bùxíng · won’t do行李xíngli · luggage行李箱xínglǐxiāng · trunk自行车zìxíngchē · bike银行卡yínhángkǎ · bank card行xíng · OK进行jìnxíng · to advance流行liúxíng · popular举行jǔxíng · to hold (a meeting旅行lǚxíng · to travel

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世界shìjiè · world图书馆túshūguǎn · library西xī · West洗手间xǐshǒujiān · toilet中间zhōngjiān · middle中文Zhōngwén · Chinese language餐厅cāntīng · dining hall厕所cèsuǒ · toilet

FAQs

银行 (yínháng) means “bank”. It is an HSK 3 word.
Say it yínháng: yín with a 2nd tone, then háng with a 2nd 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, 银行 is written 銀行. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 家 (jiā) or 个 (gè). For example, one bank is 一家银行 (yì jiā yínháng).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type yinhang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 银行 from the suggestions. Typing yinhang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
银行 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.