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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 帮倒忙

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
帮倒忙 bāng dào máng - to be more of a hindrance than a help

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - 15,806 75,295 48,768

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
bāng- old variant of 幫|帮[bang1]
bāng- old variant of 幫|帮[bang1]
bāng- to help
- to assist
- to support
- for sb (i.e. as a help)
- hired (as worker)
- side (of pail, boat etc)
- outer layer
- upper (of a shoe)
- group
- gang
- clique
- party
- secret society
dǎo- to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally
- to fail; to go bankrupt
- to overthrow
- to change (trains or buses)
- to move around
- to resell at a profit
dào- to invert; to place upside down or frontside back
- to pour out
- to tip out; to dump
- inverted; upside down; reversed
- to go backward
- contrary to what one might expect; but; yet
máng- busy
- hurriedly
- to hurry
- to rush

Other Words Containing 帮倒忙

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
帮倒忙 - - 15,806 75,295 48,768