扳 (bān): to pull, to turn (sth) around, to turn around (a situation)
扳 (bān) is a Chinese character meaning “to pull.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 扌 (semantic) and 反 (phonetic). It ranks #2833 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 扳 hand. Its radical form 扌 (hand) appears in many related characters such as 手 (shǒu, hand), 打 (dǎ, hit, make), 找 (zhǎo, to look for).
Definitions
- to pull
- to turn (sth) around
- to turn around (a situation)
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 扳机noun | bān jī | (gun) trigger |
| 扳手noun | bān shǒu | spanner |
| 扳回 | bān huí | to pull back |
| 扳子noun | bān zi | spanner |
| 扳平verb | bān píng | to equalize |
| 活动扳手 | huó dòng bān shǒu | adjustable spanner |
| 扳回一城 | bān huí yī chéng | to recover some lost ground (in a competition) |
| 扳不倒儿noun | bān bù dǎo r | (dialect) roly-poly toy |
| 内六角扳手noun | nèi liù jiǎo bān shǒu | Allen key |
| 扳道员noun | bān dào yuán | pointsman |
| 扳本儿 | bān běn r | to recoup losses (in gambling) |
| 管扳手 | guǎn bān shǒu | pipe wrench |
| 扳指儿noun | bān zhǐ r | erhua variant of 扳指 |
| 呆扳手 | dāi bān shǒu | open spanner |
| 扳道verb | bān dào | railroad switch |
扳 appears in 26 compound words: 73 as the first character, 0 as the last, and 27 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 扳 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (3)
Showing 2 of 3 idioms containing 扳.
Example Sentences
他扳了一个电话，约朋友晚上一起吃饭。
tā bān le yī gě diàn huà , yāo péng yǒu wǎn shǎng yī qǐ chī fàn .
He made a phone call to invite a friend to dinner that evening.
补时第1分钟，清远队球员柯博文禁区外远射将比分扳平。
bǔ shí dì 1 fēn zhōng , qīng yuǎn duì qiú yuán Kē bó wén jīn qū wài yuǎn shè jiāng bǐ fēn bān píng .
In the first minute of stoppage time, Qingyuan player Ke Bowen tied the game with a long-range shot from outside the penalty area.
下半场，德尔加多盘带内切轰出世界波，帮助英博扳平比分，最终双方1:1握手言和。
xià bàn chǎng , dé ěr jiā duō pán dài nèi qiē hōng chū shì jiè bō , bāng zhù yīng bó bān píng bǐ fēn , zuì zhōng shuāng fāng 1 : 1 wò shǒu yán hé .
In the second half, Delgado dribbled toward the center of the field and fired a stunning goal to help Yingbo tie the game; the match ultimately ended in a 1-1 draw.
英足总杯|韦斯咸补时入两球扳平 互射12码惨负列斯联出局
yīng zú zǒng bēi Wéi sī xián bǔ shí rù liǎng qiú bān píng hù shè 1 2 mǎ cǎn fù liè sī lián chū jú
FA Cup | West Ham Scores Twice in Injury Time to Tie the Game, but Falls to Leeds in Penalty Shootout
中超|港将陈晋一世界波罚球扳平 京沪打吡申花1:1逼和国安
zhōng chāo gǎng jiāng chén jìn yī shì jiè bō fá qiú bān píng jīng hù dǎ 吡 shēn huā 1 : 1 bī hé guó ān
Chinese Super League | Hong Kong-born Chen Jinyi scores a stunning free kick to level the score; in the Beijing derby, Shanghai Shenhua holds Beijing Guoan to a 1-1 draw
Character Family
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