bǎng
verb HSK 7-9 #2,015

Meanings

  1. 1 to tie
  2. 2 to bind
  3. 3 to kidnap (in 绑架)

Examples

Bǎ xínglǐ bǎng zài chēshàng.
Tie the luggage onto the car.
Tā bǎtóu fǎ bǎng le qǐlái.
She tied her hair up.

Tips

usage
means to tie or bind with rope or string. Common compounds: 绑架 (bǎngjià, to kidnap), 绑定 (bǎngdìng, to link/bind an account), 捆绑 (kǔnbǎng, to bundle/tie up).

Components

radical
silk thread (radical form)
Left silk-radical (contracted form of ) — the indexing radical. Anchors in the family of cord-and-binding verbs: (tie), (wind), (bind). The thread is what does the tying.
phonetic
bāng
state; nation
Right supplies the sound (bāng → bǎng, just a tone shift). originally meant a fortified territory — semantically distant, so it functions purely as a phonetic loan. Same phonetic family: bāng (help), bāng (clapper).

Stroke Order

bǎng