(bàng) - great, excellent; a stick in Mandarin
bàngTraditional: 棒
Translation
great, excellent; a stick
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound with the wood radical and a phonetic element, originally meaning a wooden stick or club. In modern colloquial use it also means great or excellent.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 木 (wood) + 奉 (fèng, phonetic)
Stroke order
棒
Examples
！
You are great!
。
This idea is excellent.
篮。
He plays basketball very well.
。
He is holding a stick in his hand.
。
This film is brilliant.
棒 (bàng) means great or excellent, and literally a stick. 你真棒 is a warm, everyday compliment.
Where this fits
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 棒.
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