庞 (páng): (bound form) huge, (bound form) numerous and disordered, (bound form) face
庞 (páng) is a Chinese character meaning “(bound form) huge.” Classified as HSK Level 6 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 广 (structural) and 龙 (structural). It ranks #1832 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 庞 a dragon 龙 inside a house 广. Its radical form 广 (shelter) appears in many related characters such as 床 (chuáng, bed), 店 (diàn, shop), 广 (guǎng, wide, broad).
Definitions
- (bound form) huge
- (bound form) numerous and disordered
- (bound form) face
Etymology & Origin
ideographicA dragon 龙 inside a house 广
Decomposition: ⿸广龙 (layout: surround-from-upper-left)
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 庞
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 庞德 | páng dé | Pound (name)... |
| 脸庞noun | liǎn páng | face |
| 庞贝proper-noun | páng bèi | Pompeii, ancient Roman town near Naples, Italy |
| 庞然大物phrase | páng rán dà wù | (idiom) huge object |
| 面庞noun | miàn páng | face |
| 庞克noun | páng kè | (Tw) (loanword) punk (music or subculture) |
| 庞杂adjective | páng zá | complex |
| 庞培 | páng péi | Pompeium, Roman town in Bay of Naples destroyed by eruption of Vesuvius in 79 |
| 庞加莱proper-noun | páng jiā lái | Henri Poincaré (1854-1912), French mathematician, physicist and philosopher |
| 庞德街 | páng dé jiē | Bond Street (London, England) |
| 詹姆斯·庞德 | zhān mǔ sī · páng dé | James Bond |
| 庞氏骗局noun | páng shì piàn jú | Ponzi scheme |
| 勒庞proper-noun | lè páng | Jean-Marie Le Pen (1928-), French Front National extreme right-wing politician |
| 都庞岭 | dū páng lǐng | Dupang mountain range between south Hunan and Guangdong |
| 庞氏 | páng shì | Ponzi (name) |
庞 appears in 18 compound words: 72 as the first character, 17 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 庞 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (1)
Example Sentences
庞字在日常生活中使用频率较低。
páng zì zài rì cháng shēng huó zhōng shǐ yòng pín lǜ jiào dī .
The character "庞" is not commonly used in everyday life.
问题在于,在知识网络的构建之初,记忆很难直接支撑起这个庞大网络的结构。
wèn tí zài yú , zài zhī shí wǎng lào de gòu jiàn zhī chū , jì yì hěn nán zhí jiē zhī chēng qǐ zhè gè páng dà wǎng lào de jié gòu .
The problem is that, in the early stages of building a knowledge network, memory alone is hardly sufficient to support the structure of this vast network.
但在 AI 时代,肌肉练得再大,如果原料和养料供不上,庞大的身躯也只能原地干等。
dàn zài A I shí dài , jī ròu liàn dé zài dà , rú guǒ yuán liào hé yǎng liào gōng bù shàng , páng dà de shēn qū yě zhī néng yuán dì gān děng .
But in the age of AI, no matter how big your muscles get, if you don’t have enough raw materials and nutrients to fuel them, that massive physique will just be stuck waiting in place.
与展车一同消失在公众视野里的,还有追觅庞大的造车团队。
yǔ zhǎn chē yī tóng xiāo shī zài gōng zhòng shì yě lǐ de , hái yǒu zhuī mì páng dà de zào chē tuán duì .
Along with the concept car, ZuiMi’s large automotive development team also disappeared from the public eye.
港铁“运货党”奇招出击 论论尽尽推庞大家电等升降机 网民轰做法危险害人害己|...
gǎng tiě yùn huò dǎng qí zhāo chū jī lùn lùn jǐn jǐn tuī páng dà jiā diàn děng shēng jiàng jī wǎng mín hōng zuò fǎ wēi xiǎn hài rén hài jǐ . . .
MTR's "freight party" attacked with a strange move, and the discussion pushed the elevators such as Pang Da Da appliances, and netizens bombarded the practice of dangerous harm to others and themselves|...
庞巴迪看好印度市场增长,机场扩建带来新机遇
páng bā dí kàn hǎo yìn dù shì chǎng zēng cháng , jī chǎng kuò jiàn dài lái xīn jī yù
Bombardier is optimistic about the growth of the Indian market, and the expansion of the airport brings new opportunities
他继承了他爸爸的庞大遗产。
Tā jìchéng le tā bàba de pángdà yíchǎn.
He succeeded to his father's large property.
他死前累积了庞大的财富。
Tā sǐ qián lěijī le pángdà de cáifù.
He amassed a large fortune before he died.
Character Family
广 Radical Family — Characters sharing the shelter radical
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