帮
bāng HSK1

help

帮 (幫) bāng
help verb
to assist, support, or perform a task on behalf of someone

请帮我开一下门。

qǐng bāng wǒ kāi yī​xià mén.

Please help me open the door.

group measure word
a group of people, gang, clique, or secret society

这一帮人都是他的朋友。

zhè yī bāng rén dōu shì tā de péng​you.

This group of people are all his friends.

hire verb
to be employed or work as a hired hand

他年轻的时候曾经在码头帮过短工。

tā nián​qīng de shí​hou céng​jīng zài mǎ​tou bāng guo duǎn​gōng.

When he was young, he used to work as a casual laborer at the docks.

side noun
the side of a container or boat, or the upper part of a shoe

这只木桶的帮裂开了，所以总会漏水。

zhè zhī mù​tǒng de bāng liè​kāi le, suǒ​yǐ zǒng huì lòu​shuǐ.

The side of this wooden bucket is cracked, so it always leaks.

Frequency
Character
Written text
769th most common 243.2 per million
Movie subtitles
164th most common 1089.1 per million appears in 97% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
947.7 per million appears in 92% of films
Written text
189.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 2
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Traditional
幫
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+5E2E

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)