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浜

bāng

Character

What 浜 means

1. stream
2. creek

Example sentences

• 上海以前有许多小河浜，其中有肇家浜、洋泾浜，现在都被填了。
  Shànghǎi yǐqián yǒu xǔduō xiǎohé bāng, qízhōng yǒu zhào jiā bāng, yáng Jīng bāng, xiànzài dōu bèi tián le.
  There used to be a lot of small creeks in old time Shanghai, which included Zhaojia Creek and Yangjing Creek, but they're all covered up nowadays.

Words containing 浜

• 沙家浜Shā jiā bāng"Sha Family's Creek", a Beijing opera classified as model theater 样板戏
• 洋泾浜英语Yáng jīng bāng Yīng yǔpidgin English

Characters that look like 浜

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

• 洞dòngcave; hole; zero (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers)
• 涡guōname of a river
• 淇qíname of a river
• 涸héto dry; to dry up
• 涓juānbrook; to select
• 惆chóuforlorn; vexed; disappointed

Sounds the same

Read bāng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 帮to help; to assist; to support
• 邦(bound form) country; nation; state
• 梆watchman's rattle
• 𠳐(onomatopoeia) bang (door slamming shut etc); rat-a-tat (knocking on a door etc)