棒 (paang5 | bang4) : stick; club; leg (race)

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棒

paang5

bang4

[1] [n] stick; club; cudgel
[2] [n] leg/length of a relay race
[3] [adj] [國] fine; excellent; fabulous
[4] [adj] [國] hefty; husky; strong

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Additional PoS:

Stroke count: 12

Level: 3

Radical: 木 (#75)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

棒

Don't confuse with:
捧

This word has been viewed 10079 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 6th Jan 2011 01:03

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棒球 paang5 kau4 bang4 qiu2 = baseball

球棒 kau4 paang5 qiu2 bang4 = bat; club; stick

火棒 fo2 paang5 = a lighted torch (used in acrobatics)

燃料元件細棒 jin4 liu6*2 jyun4 gin6 sai3 paang5 ran2 liao4 yuan2 jian4 xi4 bang4 = fuel pins

棒硫 paang5 lau4 bang4 liu2 = roll sulphur

棒球棒 paang5 kau4 paang5 bang4 qiu2 bang4 = (baseball) bat

棒球擊球手 paang5 kau4 gik1 kau4 sau2 bang4 qiu2 ji2/1 (Taiwan/PRC) qiu2 shou3 = batter (in baseball)

棒球投手 paang5 kau4 tau4 sau2 bang4 qiu2 tou2 shou3 = pitcher (in baseball)

棒球場 paang5 kau4 coeng4 bang4 qiu2 chang3 = baseball field

棒槌 paang5 ceoi4 bang4 chui2 = wooden club (used to beat clothes in washing)
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Showing all 2 examples containing 棒

你要捹啲螢光棒粵
You need to wave the glow sticks.

噉做會棒打鴛鴦，我做唔落。粵
Doing this would break the couple apart. I cannot bear to do it.

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Decimal representation of this word: 棒
Unicode code for this character: U+68d2 (off-site link)

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