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蚌

bàng

Character

What 蚌 means

1. mussel
2. clam

Other readings

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

• Bèngabbr. for Bengbu prefecture-level City {蚌埠市|Bèng bù Shì}, Anhui

Words starting with 蚌

• 蚌壳bàng kéclamshell
• 蚌埠市Bèng bù ShìBengbu, prefecture-level city in Anhui Province 安徽省
• 蚌山区Bèng shān QūBengshan, a district of Bengbu City 蚌埠市
• 蚌埠Bèng bùsee 蚌埠市
• 蚌山Bèng shānsee 蚌山区

Words containing 蚌

• 彩蚌cǎi bàngpainted shell; painting on shell
• 河蚌hé bàngmussels; bivalves grown in rivers and lakes
• 蛤蚌gé bàngclam
• 哲蚌寺Zhé bàng sìDrepung monastery, Lhasa, Tibet
• 象拔蚌xiàng bá bàngelephant trunk clam; geoduck (Panopea abrupta), large clam with a long proboscis…
• 老蚌生珠lǎo bàng shēng zhūlit. an old oyster producing a pearl (idiom); fig. birthing a son at an advanced age
• 鹬蚌相争，渔翁得利yù bàng xiāng zhēng , yú wēng dé lìlit. when the snipe and the clam grapple with each other, the fisherman catches them both…
• 鹬蚌相争yù bàng xiāng zhēngabbr. for 鷸蚌相爭，鹬蚌相争，渔翁得利

Characters that look like 蚌

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

• 种zhǒngseed; species; kind
• 眸móupupil (of the eye); eye
• 蚱zhàgrasshopper
• 铈shìcerium (chemistry)
• 蚪dǒuused in 蝌蚪
• 蚜yáaphis

Sounds the same

Read bàng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 棒stick; club; cudgel
• 傍near; approaching; to depend on
• 磅scale (instrument for weighing); to weigh; (loanword) pound…
• 谤to slander; to defame; to speak ill of
• 镑pound (sterling) (loanword)
• 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)