绊 (bàn): to trip
绊 (bàn) is a Chinese character meaning “to trip.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 纟 (semantic) and 半 (phonetic). It ranks #3096 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 绊 thread. Its radical form 纟 (silk) appears in many related characters such as 红 (hóng, red), 线 (xiàn, line, thread), 结 (jié, knot, result).
Definitions
- to trip
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 绊倒 | bàn dǎo | to trip |
| 绊脚石 | bàn jiǎo shí | stumbling block |
| 羁绊 | jī bàn | trammels |
| 磕磕绊绊 | kē ke bàn bàn | bumpy (of a road) |
| 绊住 | bàn zhù | to entangle |
| 绊脚 | bàn jiǎo | to stumble over sth |
| 牵绊 | qiān bàn | to bind |
| 纽绊 | niǔ bàn | see 紐襻|纽襻[niu3 pan4] |
| 绊跤 | bàn jiāo | to trip |
绊 appears in 9 compound words: 56 as the first character, 33 as the last, and 11 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 绊 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (1)
Example Sentences
写好绊字需要掌握正确的笔画顺序。
xiě hǎo bàn zì xū yāo zhǎng wò zhèng què de bǐ huà shùn xù .
To write the character "绊" correctly, you need to master the correct stroke order.
从金庸的“情”到日本的“绊”──襄阳古城墙下的跨文化沉思
cóng jīn yōng de qíng dào rì běn de bàn 襄 yáng gǔ chéng qiáng xià de kuà wén huà chén sī
From Jin Yong’s “Affection” to Japan’s “Kizuna”: Cross-Cultural Reflections Beneath the Ancient City Walls of Xiangyang
Character Family
纟 Radical Family — Characters sharing the silk radical
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