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磅

bàng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 character level 7-9 Character

磅 (bàng) means "scale (instrument for weighing); to weigh; (loanword) pound (unit of weight, about 454 grams)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 磅 means

1. scale (instrument for weighing)
2. to weigh
3. loanwordpound (unit of weight, about 454 grams)
4. (printing) point (unit used to measure the size of type)
5. Taiwan(printing) pound; ream weight (used to describe paper thickness)

Other readings

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

• pángused in {磅礴|páng bó}; Taiwan pr. pāng

Example sentences

• 我要三磅的鸡肉。
  Wǒ yào sān bàng de jīròu.
  I'd like three pounds of chicken.
• 上周我胖了五磅。
  Shàng zhōu wǒ pàng le wǔ bàng.
  Last week I gained another five pounds.
• 你需要甩掉几磅。
  Nǐ xūyào shuǎidiào jǐ bàng.
  You need to shed some pounds.
• 他重二百七十磅。
  He weighs 270 pounds.
• 我们买了一磅的茶。
  We bought a pound of tea.
• 婴儿出生时7磅重。
  The baby weighed seven pounds at birth.

Words starting with 磅

• 磅礴páng bómajestic; boundless; to fill; to pervade
• 磅刷bàng shuālargest-size housepainter's brush
• 磅蛋糕bàng dàn gāopound cake
• 磅秤bàng chèngscale; platform balance

Words containing 磅

• 重磅zhòng bàng(of a bomb) powerful; (of news) impactful; significant; (of fabric) heavy-duty
• 台磅tái bàngplatform balance
• 过磅guò bàngto weigh (on a scale)
• 重磅炸弹zhòng bàng zhà dàn(fig.) sth that produces shockwaves; bombshell (revelation); blockbuster (product)

Characters built on 旁

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

• 榜bǎngnotice or announcement; list of names; public roll of successful examinees
• 膀bǎngupper arm; wing
• 镑bàngpound (sterling) (loanword)
• 谤bàngto slander; to defame; to speak ill of
• 傍bàngnear; approaching; to depend on
• 螃pángused in 螃蟹
• 滂pāngrushing (water)
• 蒡bàngused in 牛蒡

Characters that look like 磅

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

• 穆mùsolemn; reverent; calm
• 碳tàncarbon (chemistry)
• 槽cáotrough; manger; groove
• 磺huángsulfur
• 踵zhǒngto arrive; to follow; heel
• 碴cháfault; glass fragment; quarrel

Sounds the same

Read bàng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 棒stick; club; cudgel
• 傍near; approaching; to depend on
• 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 磅 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · bàng–bó (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 bàng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.