蚌 — Chinese character
蚌
bàng
oysters, mussels; mother-of-pearl
- Pinyin
- bàng
- Radical
- 142 ⾍ (Insect)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 虫 丰
- Formation
- pictophonetic — mollusk; meaning component 虫; sound component 丰
- Japanese
- 蚌 as a kanji
Common words with 蚌
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 河蚌 | hé bàng | mussels; bivalves grown in rivers and lakes |
| 蚌壳 (蚌殼) | bàng ké | clamshell |
| 鹬蚌相争 (鷸蚌相爭) | yù bàng xiāng zhēng | abbr. for 鷸蚌相爭，漁翁得利|鹬蚌相争，渔翁得利[yu4 bang4 xiang1 zheng1 , yu2 weng1 de2 li4] |
| 象拔蚌 | xiàng bá bàng | elephant trunk clam; geoduck (Panopea abrupta), large clam with a long proboscis (native to the west coast of North America) |
| 蛤蚌 | gé bàng | clam |
| 彩蚌 | cǎi bàng | painted shell; painting on shell |
| 老蚌生珠 | lǎo bàng shēng zhū | lit. an old oyster producing a pearl (idiom); fig. birthing a son at an advanced age |
English words written with 蚌
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.