帮
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to help; to assist; to support; for sb (i.e. as a help); hired (as worker); side (of pail, boat etc); outer layer; upper (of a shoe); group; gang; clique; party; secret society
- HSK 3.0
- Level 1
- Old HSK
- Level 2
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 巾 +7
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 帮
- Common rank
- #1,510
- Unicode
- U+5E2E
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Formation & memory
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Words with 帮
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 帮忙 | to help; to lend a hand; to do a favor; to do a good turn | |
| 四人帮 | Gang of Four: Jiang Qing 江青[Jiang1 Qing1], Zhang Chunqiao 張春橋|张春桥[Zhang1 Chun1 qiao2], Yao… | |
| 清红帮 | traditional secret society, Chinese equivalent of Freemasons | |
| 青红帮 | traditional secret society, Chinese equivalent of Freemasons | |
| 本帮菜 | Shanghainese food | |
| 传帮带 | to pass on experience (to the next generation) | |
| 帮子 | outer (of cabbage etc); upper (of a shoe); (coll.) group; gang | |
| 中帮 | mid-top (shoes) | |
| 马帮 | caravan of horses carrying goods | |
| 有帮助 | helpful | |
| 帮会 | secret society; underworld gang | |
| 帮手 | helper; assistant | |
| 高帮 | high-top (shoes); ankle-high shoes | |
| 帮工 | to help with farm work; casual laborer | |
| 相帮 | to help one another; to aid | |
| 短衣帮 | lit. short jacket party; working people; the toiling masses; blue collar workers | |
| 黑帮 | bunch of gangsters; criminal gang; organized crime syndicate | |
| 帮同 | to help (sb do sth); to assist (sb in doing sth) | |
| 帮教 | to mentor | |
| 血帮 | Bloods, street gang in USA |