蹦 (bèng): to jump, to bounce, to hop
蹦 (bèng) is a Chinese character meaning “to jump.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 足 (semantic) and 崩 (phonetic). It ranks #2658 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 蹦 foot. Its radical form 足 (foot) appears in many related characters such as 跑 (pǎo, to run), 跟 (gēn, follow, heel), 路 (lù, road).
Definitions
- to jump
- to bounce
- to hop
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 活蹦乱跳adjective | huó bèng luàn tiào | to leap and frisk about (idiom) |
| 蹦蹦跳跳phrase | bèng bèng tiào tiào | bouncing and vivacious |
| 欢蹦乱跳adjective | huān bèng luàn tiào | glowing with health and vivacity (idiom) |
| 蹦出来 | bèng chū lai | to crop up |
| 三蹦子 | sān bèng zi | (coll.) motorized three-wheeler |
| 蹦高儿 | bèng gāo r | erhua variant of 蹦高 |
| 蹦高verb | bèng gāo | to jump |
| 蹦儿noun | bèng r | erhua variant of 蹦 |
| 蹦蹦儿车 | bèng bèng r chē | motor tricycle (onom. bang-bang car) |
| 蹦达 | bèng da | variant of 蹦躂|蹦跶 |
| 蹦极noun | bèng jí | (loanword) bungee jumping |
| 蹦跳verb | bèng tiào | to hop |
| 蹦床noun | bèng chuáng | trampoline |
| 蹦迪verb | bèng dí | disco dancing |
| 蹦跶verb | bèng da | (coll.) to jump about |
蹦 appears in 16 compound words: 75 as the first character, 6 as the last, and 19 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 蹦 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (3)
Example Sentences
蹦字由18笔画组成，结构很巧妙。
bèng zì yóu bǐ huà zǔ chéng , jié gòu hěn qiǎo miào .
The character "蹦" consists of 18 strokes and has a very clever structure.
如果在社交平台上搜索手工床垫，除了广告外最多的贴子便是吐槽要起居要蹦上跳下。
rú guǒ zài shè jiāo píng tái shàng sōu suǒ shǒu gōng chuáng diàn , chú le guǎng gào wài zuì duō de tiē zǐ biàn shì tǔ cáo yāo qǐ jū yāo bèng shàng tiào xià .
If you search for "handmade mattresses" on social media, aside from ads, most of the posts are complaints about having to jump up and down to get in and out of bed.
游客玩蹦极因恐高半空中晕厥,园方回应:身体无碍,...
yóu kè wán bèng jí yīn kǒng gāo bàn kōng zhōng yūn 厥 , yuán fāng huí yīng : shēn tǐ wú ài , . . .
Tourists fainted in mid-air for fear of bungee jumping, and the park responded: the body is fine,...
我的六十岁的房东为什么买了一个蹦床？
Wǒ de liùshí suì de fángdōng wèishénme mǎi le yī gè bèngchuáng?
Why did my sixty-year-old landlord buy a trampoline?
汤姆在蹦床上跳了几个后空翻。
Tāngmǔ zài bèngchuáng shàng tiào le jǐge hòukōngfān.
Tom did some backflips on the trampoline.
Character Family
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