棒
HSK 5freq #1228
Meanings
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- 1.stick
- 2.club
- 3.cudgel
- 4.smart
- 5.capable
- 6.strong
- 7.wonderful
- 8.classifier for legs of a relay race
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Wiktionary
- 1.stick; club; truncheon
- 2.to hit with a stick
- 3.baton; responsibility; succession
- 4.hefty; strong
- 5.terrific; smart; handsome; excellent; skillful
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *broːŋʔ): semantic 木 (“tree, wood”) + phonetic 奉 (OC *boŋʔ) – a wooden club. ; “terrific; smart; handsome; excellent; skillful” : The semantics may have developed as “stick” > “hard” > “excellent”; compare dialectal Mandarin 槓／杠 (gàng) (Yang, 2012).
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Stroke order
Components
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Example sentences
好棒！
Awesome!
好棒！
Fantastic!
我最棒。
I'm the best.
新鮮的食物最棒了。
Fresh food is wonderful.
汤姆不是我们队里最棒的球员。
Tom isn't the best player on our team.
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