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甭

béng

HSK 6 Character

What 甭 means

1. contracted form of {不用|bù yòng}

Other readings

甭 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• bèngvery

Words starting with 甭

• 甭管béng guǎn(colloquial) regardless of; no matter (where, who etc)

Characters that look like 甭

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

• 兼jiāndouble; twice; simultaneous
• 羞xiūshy; ashamed; shame
• 垂chuíto hang (down); droop; dangle
• 圃pǔgarden; orchard
• 孬nāo(dialect) contracted form of 不好
• 莪ézedoary (Curcuma zedoaria), plant rhizome similar to turmeric

Sounds the same

Read béng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 甮old variant of 甭; need not

Where 甭 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · béng–bǐ (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 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 béng correctly.
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