(bǎng) - to tie, to bind, to tie up in Mandarin
bǎngTraditional: 綁
Translation
to tie, to bind, to tie up
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: the silk radical 纟 gives the sense of cord and binding, while 邦 (bāng) supplies the sound.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 纟 (silk, thread) + 邦 (bāng, phonetic)
Stroke order
绑
Examples
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He tied the rope to the tree.
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Please help me tie my shoelaces.
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Those men tied him up.
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She tied her hair back with a red ribbon.
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The box is too heavy, let us tie it a bit tighter.
绑 (bǎng) is the everyday verb for tying something with cord, rope or a strap. It covers shoelaces, parcels, a horse to a post, and in the news it is also the verb inside 绑架, to kidnap. The thread radical on the left is doing the work: anything you fasten with a length of something flexible gets 绑.
In practice it almost always turns up with 把 or with a result attached. 把箱子绑好 ties the box up properly, 绑住 holds it fast, 绑在树上 specifies where the knot ends up. A bare 我绑 sounds unfinished to a Chinese ear, much as "I tied" does in English without an object.
The trap is assuming 绑 covers every English "tie". A necktie is 领带 and you 打领带, literally strike a tie, never 绑领带. Tying two teams in a match is 平, nothing to do with rope at all. Keep 绑 for the physical act of binding with something long and thin and you will not go wrong.
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