VocabularyHSK 3 · core

帮忙

bāngmáng

to help out

Part of speech · verb

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忙busy

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Examples

帮我个忙。
Help me out.
他在帮忙。
He's helping out.

Collocations

帮个忙帮忙做请帮忙

Mnemonic

帮忙 bāngmáng "help out (with a task)" — 帮 + 忙 (busy/task), separable: 帮我个忙 "do me a favor". Distinct from 帮助 bāngzhù: 帮助 is abstract/general help, 帮忙 is concrete/task-specific.

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"Do me a favor"?