棒
stick; club; cudgel; smart; capable; strong; wonderful; classifier for legs of a relay race
12 strokes
Dict coverage rank #986 U+68D2
How 棒 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
木 (semantic, “wood”) + 奉 (phonetic, fèng)
How to remember it
cudgel · Heisig RSH #1233
木 tree + 奉 proffer
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 奉
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 奉 (fèng) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 奉 sound component | fèng | to offer, to respect, to server; to receive |
| 埲 | běng | dust storm |
| 唪 | fěng | to recite, to intone, to chant |
Words containing 棒
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 棒子面儿 | bàng zi miàn r | erhua variant of 棒子麵|棒子面[bang4 zi5 mian4] |
| 棒子国 | Bàng zi guó | (derog.) Korea, esp. South Korea |
| 棒子面 | bàng zi miàn | maize cornflour; corn mush; polenta |
| 高丽棒子 | Gāo lí bàng zi | Korean (derog.) |
| 接棒人 | jiē bàng rén | successor |
| 电视棒 | diàn shì bàng | TV streaming stick |
| 接力棒 | jiē lì bàng | relay baton; (fig.) responsibilities (passed over to one's successor) |
| 一级棒 | yī jí bàng | first-rate; excellent (loanword from Japanese 一番, ichiban) |
| 计量棒 | jì liàng bàng | measuring rod; dipstick |
| 棒子 | bàng zi | stick; club; cudgel; maize (corn); ear of maize; corncob; (derog.) Korean |
| 大棒 | dà bàng | big stick (policy etc) |
| 棒国 | Bàng guó | (derog.) Korea |
| 电棒 | diàn bàng | (coll.) flashlight; (Tw) stun baton; (Tw) hair iron; hair tongs |
| 电击棒 | diàn jī bàng | stun baton |
| 牙线棒 | yá xiàn bàng | floss pick |
| 玉米棒 | yù mǐ bàng | corn cob |
| 鲁棒性 | lǔ bàng xìng | robustness |
| 棒旋星系 | bàng xuán xīng xì | barred spiral galaxy |
| 东一榔头西一棒子 | dōng yī láng tóu xī yī bàng zi | banging away clumsily in all directions with no overall vision |
| 棒球 | bàng qiú | baseball; CL:個|个[ge4],隻|只[zhi1] |