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辦

bàn

manage

Phonosemantic compound. 力 represents the meaning and 辡 represents the sound.

Components
力 meaning component

力  Meaning component

lì

  

power

辡 sound component

辡  Sound component

biàn

  

criminals accusing one another

Evolution

辦 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
辦 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

办 (辦) 

bàn

manage, do, handle; deal with; to do; to manage; to handle; to go about; to run; to set up; to deal with

Most common words with 辦
Freq.
Word
Meaning

办法

means

办

to do

怎么办

what's to be done

办公室

office

举办

to conduct

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[b]ˤren-s

beanH

bàn

manage, deal with


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 91.7027% of movies

273rd most common character in movies

367th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

办

Unicode

U+8FA6

Shuowen

《說文新附》：“辦，致力也。从力，辡聲。”


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