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Meaning of 夯

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Polyphone (多音字)
Total strokes: 5; Radical:
Ideographic:A load that takes great strength
Character Formation:
  • Above to below
    • [ ] big, great, vast, high, deep
    • [ ] strength, power; capability, influence
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1
Pinyin: bèn
English Definition:variant of
Chinese Definition:
①同“笨”。
Example Words:
心拙口夯 xīn zhuō kǒu bèn variant of 心拙口笨
夯货 bèn huò fool; stupid
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2
Pinyin: hāng
English Definition:to tamp; (slang) popular; hot
Chinese Definition:
①用重物把地或其他粒状材料砸密实。[合]把土夯实;夯硪(砸压)。
②[方言]用力猛击。[例]举起拳头向下夯。
③用力扛东西。[例]夯,大用力以肩举物。——《字汇》。[例]自家闺阁中物,不肯放下,反累及他人担夯,无乃大劳乎!——明·净善集《禅林宝训》。
④捞取。[合]夯市(纵兵大闹街市)。
⑤充胀,胀满。[例]有口难言,气夯破胸脯。——元·王实甫《西厢记》。
⑥另见bèn。

Example Words:
夯实 hāng shí to tamp; to ram (earth etc)
打夯 hāng to ram; to tamp
夯歌 hāng rammers' work chant
夯土 hāng rammed earth
齐打夯儿地 hāng r de in unison and with one voice (dialect)
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Example Sentences
1
They rammed the earth's surface flat before they built the roads.
2
Ray Koval:We are not occasional, right? Here, this encounter.
3
A tulou building usually consists of packed earth on the outer wall and a wooden internal framework.
4
These large structures were built by piling baskets of carefully selected earth on top of a mound of earth.
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17.6
I ordered my test bike in a slightly different configuration than the 17.6 pounder.