邦

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(bound form) country; nation; state

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HSK 3.0: Level 7–9
Strokes: 6
Radical: 邑 +4
Structure: Left–right 左右
Traditional: 邦
Common rank: #1,101
Unicode: U+90A6

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Formation & memory

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How 邦 is formed

Ideographic compound (会意字)

A bountiful 丰 place 阝

Components 丰阝

How to remember it

nation · Heisig RSH #2808

bushes + city walls

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Words with 邦

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
安邦定国	ān bāng dìng guó	to bring peace and stability to the country
安得拉邦	Ān dé lā bāng	Andhra Pradesh or Andhra State in southeast India
马哈拉施特拉邦	Mǎ hā lā shī tè lā bāng	Maharashtra (state in India)
德意志联邦共和国	Dé yì zhì Lián bāng Gòng hé guó	Federal Republic of Germany; former West Germany 1945-1990, now simply Germany
古吉拉特邦	Gǔ jí lā tè bāng	Gujarat, state in west India
联邦德国	Lián bāng Dé guó	German Federation; Bundesrepublik Deutschland; Germany
联邦通信委员会	Lián bāng Tōng xìn Wěi yuán huì	Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
美国联邦航空局	Měi guó Lián bāng Háng kōng jú	Federal Aviation Authority (FAA)
卡纳塔克邦	Kǎ nà tǎ kè bāng	Karnataka (formerly Mysore), southwest Indian state, capital Bangalore 班加羅爾\|班加罗尔[Ban1 jia1…
古尔邦节	Gǔ ěr bāng jié	(Islam) Eid al-Adha, the Festival of Sacrifice (Qurban), celebrated on the 10th day of Dhu…
外邦人	wài bāng rén	gentile
泰米尔纳德邦	Tài mǐ ěr Nà dé bāng	Tamil Nadu, southeast Indian state, capital Chennai 欽奈\|钦奈[Qin1 nai4]; formerly Madras stat…
比哈尔邦	Bǐ hā ěr bāng	Bihar, state in eastern India
索邦大学	Suǒ bāng Dà xué	Université Paris IV; the Sorbonne
邦交国	bāng jiāo guó	country with which diplomatic relations are maintained
苏黎世联邦理工学院	Sū lí shì Lián bāng Lǐ gōng Xué yuàn	Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, a university
北方邦	Běi fāng bāng	Uttar Pradesh (state in India)
多难兴邦	duō nàn xīng bāng	much hardships may awaken a nation (idiom); calamity that prompts renewal
澳大利亚联邦	Ào dà lì yà Lián bāng	Commonwealth of Australia
联邦州	lián bāng zhōu	federal state; German Bundesland

Sound family

These characters use 邦 as their sound component — compare how they read.

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
邦 sound part	bāng	country, nation, state
绑	bǎng	to tie, to fasten, to bind
梆	bāng	a watchman's rattle