bǎng
noun #12,043

Meanings

  1. 1 list
  2. 2 notice
  3. 3 public roll

Examples

Bǎngyàng
example; role model
Páihángbǎng
ranking list; chart

Tips

memory
(wood) + (side) — a wooden board posted to the side with names

Components

radical
tree; wood
Left tree radical — pictograph of a tree, here meaning a wooden board. Before paper, public announcements were carved or pasted on wooden boards displayed in the marketplace, so the radical preserves the physical object behind the abstract sense: a "list" was literally a plank with names on it.
phonetic
páng
side; beside (here phonetic)
Right supplies the sound — páng drifting to bǎng via p/b alternation common in Old Chinese. means "to the side, lateral," which loosely reinforces the imagery: a notice-board is placed beside the road where everyone can see it. Same phonetic appears in shoulder, pound, crab.

Stroke Order

bǎng