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膀

bǎng, bàng, pāng, páng

wing, upper arm

Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and 旁 represents the sound.

Components
⺼ meaning component

⺼  Meaning component

ròu

  

meat, flesh

旁 sound,meaning component

旁  Sound Meaning component

páng

  

side

Evolution

膀 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
膀 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
膀 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

膀  

bǎng

upper arm; shoulder; wing

膀  

bàng

to flirt

膀  

pāng

puffed (swollen)

膀  

páng

bladder

膀 (髈) 

bǎng

old variant of 膀[bǎng]

Most common words with 膀
Freq.
Word
Meaning

肩膀

shoulder

翅膀

wing

膀胱

bladder

臂膀

arm

膀子

arm

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 13.7434% of movies

1801st most common character in movies

1941st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+8180

Shuowen

“膀，脅也。从肉，聲。髈，膀或从骨。”


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