棒
bàng HSK5

stick

棒 bàng
excellent adjective
smart, capable, strong, or wonderful

你的汉语口语说得真棒，听起来完全像个本地人。

nǐ de Hàn​yǔ kǒu​yǔ shuō de zhēn bàng, tīng qi​lai wán​quán xiàng gè běn​dì​rén.

Your spoken Chinese is excellent; you sound just like a native speaker.

leg (relay) noun
classifier for legs of a relay race

他是这项接力赛的第一棒。

tā shì zhè xiàng jiē​lì​sài de dì​yī bàng.

He is the first leg of this relay race.

stick noun
a stick, club, or cudgel

在接力赛中，运动员必须稳稳地接住队友传来的木棒。

zài jiē​lì​sài zhōng, yùn​dòng​yuán bì​xū wěn​wěn de jiē​zhù duì​yǒu chuán​lái de mù​bàng.

In a relay race, runners must firmly grasp the baton passed by their teammates.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,288th most common 25.4 per million
Movie subtitles
354th most common 427.2 per million appears in 72% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
544.1 per million appears in 69% of films
Written text
56.9 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Strokes
12
Unicode
U+68D2

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