Read Edit View history 帮 bāng HSK1 help Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Basic Details Gloss Iconic Gloss Original Meaning Hint Phonosemantic compound. 巾 represents the meaning and 邦 represents the sound. Simplified form of 幫. Based on the original meaning "side of a shoe". The current meaning is a phonetic loan. Pinyin Separate values with commas bāng × Add Simplified Variants Separate values with commas 帮 × Add Traditional Variants Separate values with commas 幫 ×帮 × Add Variant Of Components Character ◎ Hint Type meaning sound iconic remnant simplified deleted distinguishing unknown Old pronunciation From original meaning Glyph changed 帮 Simp strokes 帮 Trad strokes Character ◎ Hint Type meaning sound iconic remnant simplified deleted distinguishing unknown Old pronunciation From original meaning Glyph changed 帮 Simp strokes 帮 Trad strokes + Add component Stroke Data 帮 Stroke Data (Simp) — JSON { "source": "dong", "medians": [ [ [ 217, 665 ], [ 239, 659 ], [ 294, 664 ], [ 445, 702 ], [ 497, 704 ] ], [ [ 239, 566 ], [ 298, 564 ], [ 445, 603 ], [ 475, 601 ] ], [ [ 130, 441 ], [ 156, 435 ], [ 202, 438 ], [ 409, 496 ], [ 457, 506 ], [ 499, 505 ] ], [ [ 345, 834 ], [ 381, 799 ], [ 382, 774 ], [ 370, 605 ], [ 345, 490 ], [ 322, 433 ], [ 281, 366 ], [ 237, 318 ], [ 174, 275 ] ], [ [ 601, 752 ], [ 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