扳 — Chinese character
扳
bān
to drag, to pull; to twist
- Pinyin
- bān
- Radical
- 64 ⼿ (Hand)
- Strokes
- 7
- Components
- 扌 反
- Formation
- pictophonetic — hand; meaning component 扌; sound component 反
Common words with 扳
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 扳机 (扳機) | bān jī | (gun) trigger |
| 扳回 | bān huí | to pull back; to regain (one's dignity etc) |
| 扳平 | bān píng | to equalize; to level the score |
| 扳手 | bān shǒu | spanner; wrench |
| 扳动 (扳動) | bān dòng | to pull out; to pull a lever |
| 扳指 | bān zhǐ | ornamental thumb ring (originally a ring, often made from jade, worn by archers in ancient times to protect the right thumb when drawing a bowstring) |
| 扳道 | bān dào | railroad switch |
| 扳子 | bān zi | spanner; wrench; measure word: 把 (bǎ) |
| 扳钳 (扳鉗) | bān qián | wrench; spanner |
| 劈空扳害 | pī kōng bān hài | damaged by groundless slander (idiom) |
| 呆扳手 | dāi bān shǒu | open spanner; open end spanner |
| 套筒扳手 | tào tǒng bān shǒu | socket spanner |
English words written with 扳
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.