bǎng
verb HSK 7-9 #2,015

Meanings

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

Examples

HSK 3
Bǎ xínglǐ bǎng zài chēshàng.
Tie the luggage onto the car.
HSK 3
Tā bǎ tóufa bǎng le qǐlái.
She tied her hair up.

Tips

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