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棒

bàng

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 character level 4 Character

棒 (bàng) means "great, terrific (colloquial); also: stick, club". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 棒 means

1. stick
2. club
3. cudgel
4. smart
5. capable
6. strong
7. wonderful
8. classifier for legs of a relay race

Example sentences

• 好棒！
  Hǎobàng!
  Awesome!
• 很棒！
  Terrific!
• 太棒了
  Awesome.
• 我最棒。
  I'm the best.
• 太棒了。
  It's really awesome.
• 这很棒。
  This is neat.

Words starting with 棒

• 棒球bàng qiúbaseball
• 棒子bàng zistick; club; cudgel
• 棒槌bàng chuíwooden club (used to beat clothes in washing)
• 棒冰bàng bīngpopsicle
• 棒喝bàng hèpractice in which a novice monk is shouted at or hit with a stick with the purpose of…
• 棒国Bàng guó(derog.) Korea
• 棒坛bàng tánbaseball circles; baseball world
• 棒材bàng cáibar; rod
• 棒杀bàng shāto bludgeon to death; (fig.) to defeat sb by publicly criticizing them
• 棒赛bàng sài(Taiwan) to defecate; to take a crap (from Taiwanese 放屎, Tai-lo pr. [pàng-sái])
• 棒子国Bàng zi guó(derog.) Korea, esp. South Korea
• 棒子面bàng zi miànmaize cornflour; corn mush; polenta
• 棒棒机bàng bàng jībar phone (cell phone shaped like a bar of candy)
• 棒极了bàng jí lesuper; excellent
• 棒球迷bàng qiú míbaseball fan
• 棒约翰Bàng Yuē hànPapa John's (pizza chain)
• 棒旋星系bàng xuán xīng xìbarred spiral galaxy
• 棒磨机bàng mó jīrod mill
• 棒糖bàng tángsucker; lollipop
• 棒棒糖bàng bàng tánglollipop; sucker
• 棒棒腿bàng bàng tuǐchicken drumstick (Tw)
• 棒棒哒bàng bàng dā(net slang) awesome; amazing
• 棒打鸳鸯bàng dǎ yuān yāng(idiom) to cruelly separate lovers (esp. by family or societal pressure)…
• 棒子面儿bàng zi miàn rerhua variant of 棒子面

Words containing 棒

• 棍棒gùn bàngclub; staff; stick
• 大棒dà bàngbig stick (policy etc)
• 指挥棒zhǐ huī bàngbaton
• 铁棒tiě bàngiron club; steel rod
• 冰棒bīng bàngpopsicle; ice pop
• 哈棒hā bàng(Taiwan; slang) to give a blowjob
• 好棒hǎo bàngexcellent (interjection)
• 接棒jiē bàngto take the baton in a relay race; (fig.) to take over from a predecessor…
• 球棒qiú bàng(baseball or cricket) bat; hockey stick
• 真棒zhēn bàngsuper!; really great; wonderful
• 肉棒ròu bàngmeat stick; penis
• 电棒diàn bàng(colloquial) flashlight; (Taiwan) stun baton; (Taiwan) hair iron; hair tongs
• 顶棒dǐng bàngbucking bar (metal bar fixing the tail of a rivet as it is driven)
• 鲁棒lǔ bàngrobust (loanword); solid
• 平衡棒píng héng bànghaltere (insect anatomy)
• 按摩棒àn mó bàngvibrator; dildo
• 卷发棒juǎn fà bàngcurling iron
• 接力棒jiē lì bàngrelay baton; (fig.) responsibilities (passed over to one's successor)
• 接棒人jiē bàng rénsuccessor
• 控制棒kòng zhì bàngcontrol rods
• 牙线棒yá xiàn bàngfloss pick
• 穷棒子qióng bàng zipoor but spirited person; (old) (derog.) peasant
• 计量棒jì liàng bàngmeasuring rod; dipstick
• 轻击棒qīng jī bàngputter (golf)

Characters that look like 棒

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 裤kùunderpants; trousers; pants
• 捧pěngto hold or offer with both hands; to sing the praises of…
• 禅chándhyana (Sanskrit); Zen; meditation (Buddhism)
• 绰chuò(bound form) ample; spacious; (literary) graceful; used in 绰号
• 掸dǎnto brush away; to dust off; brush
• 榉jǔZeikowa acuminata

Sounds the same

Read bàng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 傍near; approaching; to depend on
• 磅scale (instrument for weighing); to weigh; (loanword) pound…
• 谤to slander; to defame; to speak ill of
• 镑pound (sterling) (loanword)
• 蚌mussel; clam
• 膀used in 吊膀子
• 榜(literary) oar; (metonym) boat; variant of 搒
• 蒡used in 牛蒡
• 塝the edge; border of a field
• 玤(gem)
• 艕two boats fastened side by side
• 搒(literary) to row (a boat)

Where 棒 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Personal Qualities & Character (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read bàng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.