帮 (幫) bāng

1. bāng verb to assist; to support; to help
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: For example, in spoken Chinese, 你帮几天忙好了 'Please help for a few days.' (Lao She, 2003, p. 176; Guoyu '幚' v 1; CCD 1 '幚' 1, p. 56; Unihan '幚'; XHZD '幚' 1, p. 21)
2. bāng noun group; gang; party
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '幚' n 2; CCD 3 '幚' 1, p. 56; XHZD '幚' 2, p. 21)
3. bāng measure word group; gang; party
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity
   Notes: (Guoyu '幚' n 3; CCD 3 '幚' 2, p. 56; XHZD '幚' 4, p. 21)
4. bāng noun an underworld gang
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: As in 帮会 (CCD 3 '幚' 3, p. 56)
5. bāng noun a side
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Guoyu '幚' n 1; CCD 2 '幚' 1, p. 56; XHZD '幚' 3, p. 21)
6. bāng noun a shoe upper
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: As in 鞋帮 (Unihan '幫')
7. bāng verb to be hired
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (CCD 1 '幚' 2, p. 56)
8. bāng noun an outer layer
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (CCD 2 '幚' 2, p. 56)
9. bāng verb to echo
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 附和 (Guoyu '幚' v 2)

Contained in

• 丐帮(丐幫) beggars' union; a group of beggars
• 帮手(幫手) helper; assistant
• 帮教(幫教) to mentor
• 帮子(幫子) outer (of cabbage etc); upper (of a shoe); group; gang
• 相帮(相幫) to help one another; to aid
• 帮助(幫助) help; assistance; aid ; to help; to assist; to aid
• 帮厨(幫廚) help in the mess kitchen
• 帮佣(幫傭) servant; domestic help
• 腮帮子(腮幫子) cheek
• 国光帮帮忙(國光幫幫忙) The Gang of Kuo Kuan
• 穿帮(穿幫) (TV or movie) blooper; continuity error; (theater) to flub one's lines; unintended exposure of a body part; to be exposed (of a scheme or trick); to reveal sth one intended
• 美国帮凶(美國幫凶) United States' accomplices
• 帮腔(幫腔) to be a vocal accompaniment ; to be an assistant spokesperson
• 有帮助(有幫助) helpful
• 耐心帮助(耐心幫助) forbearance; tolerance; patient help
• 黑帮(黑幫) bunch of gangsters; criminal gang; organized crime syndicate
• 一帮(一幫) a group; a gang
• 短衣帮(短衣幫) short jacket party; working people; the toiling masses; blue collar workers
• 帮闲(幫閑) to hang on to and serve the rich and powerful by literary hack work etc
• 帮凶(幫凶) accomplice; accessory
• 匪帮(匪幫) gang of bandits; criminal gang (formerly often used of political opponents)
• 中帮(中幫) mid-top (shoes)
• 鞋帮(鞋幫) shoe uppers
• 帮办(幫辦) assist in managing; deputy
• 青红帮(青紅幫) traditional secret society, Chinese equivalent of Freemasons
• 帮衬(幫襯) to help; to assist financially
• 腮帮(腮幫) cheek; upper (of a shoe)
• 马帮(馬幫) caravan of horses carrying goods
• 帮浦(幫浦) pump
• 搭帮(搭幫) to travel together; thanks to
• 帮倒忙(幫倒忙) to be more of a hindrance than a help
• 帮工(幫工) to help with farm work; casual laborer
• 帮帮忙(幫幫忙) to help/to do a favor
• 帮忙(幫忙) to help
• 血帮(血幫) Bloods
• 帮派(幫派) gang; faction
• 瘸帮(瘸幫) Crips (gang)
• 高帮(高幫) high-top (shoes); ankle-high shoes
• 低帮(低幫) low-top (shoes)
• 帮会(幫會) a secret society
• 越帮越忙(越幫越忙) to be officious; to kibitz; to be meddlesome; to force one's help upon
• 帮丁(幫丁) a helper
• 传帮带(傳幫帶) to pass on experience (to the next generation)
• 帮同(幫同) to help (sb do sth); to assist (sb in doing sth)
• 船帮(船幫) gunwale
• 清红帮(清紅幫) traditional secret society, Chinese equivalent of Freemasons
• 本帮菜(本幫菜) Shanghainese food

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四人帮 、 帮宝适

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 第一百十八回 Chapter 118 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 8
• 第一百十九回 Chapter 119 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 8
• 第二回 Chapter 2 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 6
• 第十九回 Chapter 19 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 5
• 第三十一回 Chapter 31 The Scholars 儒林外史 — count: 4
• 第二十九回 Chapter 29 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 4
• 第二回 Chapter 46 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 3
• 第二回 Chapter 42 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 3
• 第二十一回 Chapter 21 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 3
• 第二回 Chapter 103 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 3

Collocations

• 帮源 (幫源) 賊據幫源峒 — History of Song 宋史, 卷三百六十九 列傳第一百二十八 張俊 張宗顏 劉光世 王淵 解元 曲端 Volume 369 Biographies 128: Zhang Jun, Zhang Zongyan, Liu Guangshi, Wang Yuan, Jie Yuan, Qu Duan — count: 26
• 来帮 (來幫) 我來幫你廝打 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第七回 Chapter 7 — count: 11
• 帮閒 (幫閒) 只在東京城裏城外幫閒 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第二回 Chapter 2 — count: 10
• 帮住 (幫住) 兩隻價幫住 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第十九回 Chapter 19 — count: 7
• 帮帮 (幫幫) 你可去與他幫幫功 — Journey to the West 西遊記, 第二十九回 Chapter 29 — count: 6
• 帮打 (幫打) 等老豬去幫打幫打 — Journey to the West 西遊記, 第五十五回 Chapter 55 — count: 5
• 去帮 (去幫) 阮小二便去幫住杜遷 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第十九回 Chapter 19 — count: 4
• 县帮 (縣幫) 正是清溪縣幫源洞中 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第一百十六回 Chapter 116 — count: 3
• 便帮 (便幫) 阮小五便幫住宋萬 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第十九回 Chapter 19 — count: 3
• 一个帮 (一個幫) 數內有一個幫閒的 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第七回 Chapter 7 — count: 3