绷 (bēng): to draw tight, to stretch taut, to tack (with thread or pin), (bound form) embroidery hoop
绷 (bēng) is a Chinese character meaning “to draw tight.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 纟 (semantic) and 朋 (phonetic). It ranks #2733 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 绷 thread. Its radical form 纟 (silk) appears in many related characters such as 系 (xì, to connect), 累 (lěi, to accumulate), 绍 (shào, to continue).
Definitions
- to draw tight
- to stretch taut
- to tack (with thread or pin)
- (bound form) embroidery hoop
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 绷带 | bēng dài | (loanword) bandage |
| 紧绷绷 | jǐn bēng bēng | tight |
| 绷不住 | bēng bu zhù | (Internet slang) can't contain oneself |
| 绷着脸 | běng zhe liǎn | to have a taut face |
| 绷子 | bēng zi | embroidery frame |
| 石膏绷带 | shí gāo bēng dài | plaster cast |
| 绷紧 | bēng jǐn | to stretch taut |
| 紧绷 | jǐn bēng | to stretch taut |
| 绷巴吊拷 | bēng bā diào kǎo | variant of 繃扒吊拷|绷扒吊拷[beng1 ba1 diao4 kao3] |
| 绷床 | bēng chuáng | trampoline |
| OK绷 | OK bēng | (Tw) band-aid |
| 绷簧 | bēng huáng | spring |
| 绷扒吊拷 | bēng bā diào kǎo | to strip, tie up, hang and beat sb, an ancient torture technique |
| 棕绷 | zōng bēng | rectangular frame with a palm fiber mat woven across it (placed on a bed frame as the sleeping surface) |
绷 appears in 14 compound words: 64 as the first character, 21 as the last, and 14 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 绷 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (1)
Example Sentences
我在字典里查到了绷字的详细解释。
wǒ zài zì diǎn lǐ chá dào le bēng zì de xiáng xì xiè shì .
I looked up the detailed explanation of the character "绷" in the dictionary.
绷不住了!婚礼上男孩给小姨送婚戒 边走边哭...
bēng bù zhù le ! hūn lǐ shàng nán hái gěi xiǎo yí sòng hūn jiè biān zǒu biān kū . . .
He couldn't hold it in anymore! At the wedding, the boy handed his aunt the wedding ring and cried as he walked...
他先清洗了伤口，再绑上绷带。
Tā xiān qīngxǐ le shāngkǒu, zài bǎng shàng bēngdài.
He cleansed the wound before putting on a bandage.
绷带把伤口包扎住了。
Bēngdài bǎ shāngkǒu bāozā zhù le.
The bandage was wound around the wound.
护士轻柔地给我的头缠上绷带。
Hùshi qīngróu de gěi wǒ de tóu chán shàng bēngdài.
The nurse gently put a bandage around my head.
她裁下布制作绷带。
Tā cái xià bù zhìzuò bēngdài.
She cut up the cloth to make bandages.
球迷们安静下来，绷紧神经，观看两支球队的点球大战。
Qiúmí men ānjìng xiàlai, bēngjǐn shénjīng, guānkàn liǎng zhī qiúduì de diǎnqiú dàzhàn.
The fans went silent as they nervously watched the penalty shootout between the two teams.
Character Family
纟 Radical Family — Characters sharing the silk radical
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