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笨

bèn

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 character level 4 Character

笨 (bèn) means "stupid / clumsy". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 笨 means

1. stupid
2. foolish
3. silly
4. slow-witted
5. clumsy

Example sentences

• 笨蛋！
  Idiot!
• 你很笨。
  You are stupid.
• 他比你笨。
  He's dumber than you.
• 汤姆好笨。
  Tom is so stupid.
• 我们不笨。
  We are not stupid.
• 汤姆很笨拙。
  Tāng mǔ hěn bènzhuō.
  Tom is all fingers and thumbs.

Words starting with 笨

• 笨拙bèn zhuōclumsy; awkward; stupid
• 笨蛋bèn dàn(mild insult) fool; idiot; (playful) silly person
• 笨重bèn zhòngheavy; cumbersome; unwieldy; laborious; arduous
• 笨手笨脚bèn shǒu bèn jiǎoclumsy; all thumbs
• 笨人bèn rénfool; stupid person
• 笨伯bèn bófool; dolt; clumsy oaf
• 笨瓜bèn guāfool; blockhead
• 笨货bèn huòidiot
• 笨鸡bèn jīfree-range chicken
• 笨到家了bèn dào jiā leextremely stupid
• 笨头笨脑bèn tóu bèn nǎo(idiom) stupid; muddle-headed
• 笨鸟先飞bèn niǎo xiān fēilit. the clumsy bird flies early (idiom); fig. to work hard to compensate for one's…
• 笨嘴拙舌bèn zuǐ zhuō shéclumsy in speech; poor speaker
• 笨嘴笨舌bèn zuǐ bèn shésee 笨嘴拙舌
• 笨口拙舌bèn kǒu zhuō shésee 笨嘴拙舌
• 笨嘴拙腮bèn zuǐ zhuō sāisee 笨嘴拙舌

Words containing 笨

• 愚笨yú bènstupid; clumsy
• 呆笨dāi bèndimwitted
• 嘴笨zuǐ bèninarticulate
• 粗笨cū bènawkward; clumsy; unwieldy
• 蠢笨chǔn bènstupid
• 大笨象dà bèn xiàng(slang) elephant
• 大笨鸟dà bèn niǎo(bird species of China) Malayan night heron (Gorsachius melanolophus)
• 拙笨zhuō bènclumsy; awkward; lacking skill
• 心拙口笨xīn zhuō kǒu bèndull-witted and tongue-tied
• 拙嘴笨舌zhuō zuǐ bèn shésee 笨嘴拙舌

Characters that look like 笨

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

• 莫mòdo not; there is none who
• 掌zhǎngpalm of the hand; sole of the foot; paw
• 葱cōngscallion; green onion
• 粟sùmillet; (metonym) grain
• 犁líplow
• 衮gǔnimperial robe

Sounds the same

Read bèn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 奔to go to; to head for; towards
• 坋dust; to dust; a bank of earth
• 夯variant of 笨
• 坌variant of 坋; old variant of 笨

Where 笨 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Personality & character traits (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 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 bèn correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.