(bāng) - to help, to assist in Mandarin
bāngTraditional: 幫
Translation
to help, to assist
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Word origin
The simplified 帮 'to help' contains the cloth radical 巾 and the phonetic component 邦 (bāng). It originally referred to the upper part of a shoe or a band, and came to mean a group or to assist.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 巾 (cloth radical) + 邦 (bāng, phonetic)
Stroke order
帮
Examples
？
Can you help me?
。
Do me a favour.
。
Let me help you.
。
I'll help you carry the luggage.
。
He often helps his parents with chores.
帮 (bāng) means to help, to assist. It is used as a verb in everyday Mandarin speech.
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Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 帮.
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