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běng
Radical: 土 11 strokes
Meaning: classifier for walls
💡 Think 'bang' as a wall slamming shut—埲 is the classifier for walls.
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📚 Character Story & Explanation

埲 (běng) meaning in English —

In a rural village, an old man points to a crumbling earth wall: '这埲墙有百年了' (zhè běng qiáng yǒu bǎi nián le), using 埲 as a specific classifier for walls. This rare character appears mainly in dialects, emphasizing the wall as a solid, earthen structure. It reflects China's agricultural heritage where mud walls were common.

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