膀 bǎng shoulder
shoulder; upper arm; wing
怎么记住“膀”: 月 meat + 旁 side = shoulder. The chef points to the meat on the left side of the counter and orders the shoulder for tonight's soup.
部件结构
形声 · Meaning + sound
One part gives the meaning, the other gives the sound.
膀 = 月 meat + 旁 side
- 月 meat meaning
- 旁 side sound
- offering stand
- 方 direction
The chef points to the meat on the left side of the counter and orders the shoulder for tonight's soup.
How it came to be
The flesh gives the meaning and the sign for side the sound.
用法
- 膀 read bǎng means shoulder or wing, and is bound, always in a two-character word.
- 肩膀 jiānbǎng is the everyday word for 'shoulder' (the body part), while 翅膀 chìbǎng is 'wing' (of a bird or plane).
- Note the character is polyphonic: as páng it appears in 膀胱 (pángguāng) 'bladder', a completely different, medical sense, so don't read it bǎng there.