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泵

bèng

Character

What 泵 means

1. pump (loanword)

Words starting with 泵

• 泵浦bèng pǔpump (loanword)
• 泵灯bèng dēnglamp; turn signal
• 泵站bèng zhànpumping station
• 泵柄bèng bǐngpump handle

Words containing 泵

• 水泵shuǐ bèngwater pump
• 气泵qì bèngair pump
• 油泵yóu bèngoil pump
• 热泵rè bèngheat pump
• 抽水泵chōu shuǐ bèngwater pump
• 气动泵qì dòng bèngpneumatic pump
• 真空泵zhēn kōng bèngvacuum pump
• 氮泵dàn bèngpre-workout (supplement)

Characters built on 石

These share the phonetic component 石 (shí), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 碰pèngto touch; to meet with; to bump
• 砰pēng(onomatopoeia) bang; thump
• 硼péngboron (chemistry)
• 砜fēngsulfone
• 磴dèngcliff-ledge; stone step
• 礞méng(mineral)

Characters that look like 泵

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

• 采cǎito pick; to pluck; to collect
• 泉quánspring (small stream); mouth of a spring; coin (archaic)
• 屎shǐfeces; excrement; a stool; (bound form) secretion (of the ear, eye etc)
• 秉bǐngto grasp; to hold; to maintain
• 茱zhūused in 茱萸
• 胤yìndescendant; heir; offspring

Sounds the same

Read bèng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 蹦to jump; to bounce; to hop
• 迸to burst forth; to spurt; to crack
• 甭(dialect) very
• 镚small coin; dime
• 甏a squat jar for holding wine, sauces etc
• 蚌abbr. for Bengbu prefecture-level City 蚌埠市