(hěn bàng) - very good, excellent in Mandarin
hěnbàngTraditional: 很棒
Translation
very good, excellent
Word origin
很棒 means 'excellent', literally 'very 棒'. 很 (hěn) is the degree adverb 'very'; 棒 (bàng) originally meant 'stick, club' and colloquially came to mean 'great'. 棒 is a phono-semantic compound of 木 (wood radical) and 奉 (fèng, phonetic).
- Origin
- compound
- Root
- 很 (hěn, very) + 棒 (bàng: 木 wood + 奉 phonetic)
Stroke order
很
棒
Examples
！
Your performance was excellent!
。
This idea is very good.
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She sings very well.
！
You did really well!
很棒 (hěn bàng) means very good, excellent. It is used as an expression in everyday Mandarin speech.
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