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螃

páng

Character

What 螃 means

1. used in {螃蟹|páng xiè}

Example sentences

• 第一个吃螃蟹的人一定也吃过蜘蛛。
  Dì yī gè chī pángxiè de rén yīdìng yě chī guo zhīzhū.
  The first person who ate crab must also have tried to eat a spider.

Words starting with 螃

• 螃蟹páng xiècrab

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
• 磅bàngscale (instrument for weighing); to weigh; (loanword) pound…
• 傍bàngnear; approaching; to depend on
• 滂pāngrushing (water)
• 蒡bàngused in 牛蒡

Characters that look like 螃

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

• 糟zāodregs; draff; pickled in wine
• 槽cáotrough; manger; groove
• 瞳tóngpupil of the eye
• 螈yuánsalamander; newt
• 幡fānbanner
• 燧suì(bound form) material or tool used to light a fire by means of friction or the sun's…

Sounds the same

Read páng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 旁one side; other; different
• 庞(bound form) huge; (bound form) numerous and disordered; (bound form) face
• 磅used in 磅礴; Taiwan pr. pāng
• 膀used in 膀胱
• 彷used in 彷徨
• 徬irresolute
• 厖huge
• 庬huge
• 鳑used in 鳑鲏
• 逄surname Pang
• 尨surname Pang
• 厐variant of 庞; enormous