帮

See also: 幫 and 幇

帮 U+5E2E, 帮 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5E2E ← 席 [U+5E2D] CJK Unified Ideographs 帯 → [U+5E2F]

Translingual

Stroke order

Traditional	幫
Shinjitai	幇
Simplified	帮

Han character

帮 (Kangxi radical 50, 巾+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 手中中月 (QLLB), four-corner 5722₇, composition ⿱邦巾)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 332, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8928
• Dae Jaweon: page 637, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 736, character 5
• Unihan data for U+5E2E

Chinese

Glyph origin

Simplified from 幚 (帛 → 巾), a variant of 幫 (with the phonetic 封 replaced with 邦). Officially adopted as the simplified form of 幫 in the Chinese Character Simplification Scheme (《漢字簡化方案》) in 1956.

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 帮 – see 幫 (“the sides of an object; to help; to assist; to aid; etc.”). (This character is the simplified form of 幫).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Japanese

Kanji

帮

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ほう (hō)
• Kun: たすける (tasukeru)