IDENTITY
帮bāngto help
HSK 1Top 250
CORE MEANING
to help
- Part of speech
- verb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.to helpHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 巾cloth radical (jīn)
- strokes
- 9
- Structure
- top-bottom compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿱邦巾
- gives the sound bāng
- cloth; support
USAGE
Common words
帮助bāngzhùto help
帮忙bāngmángto lend a hand
Graded examples
他经常帮助同学。Tā jīngcháng bāngzhù tóngxué.HSK3
He often helps his classmates.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 邦
LEARNING
Memory aid
A cloth (巾) band binding the state (邦) together — support, help.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #250
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
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