繃

繃 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 女火山月月 (VFUBB), four-corner 2292₇, composition ⿰糹崩)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 937, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27852
• Dae Jaweon: page 1376, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3443, character 9
• Unihan data for U+7E43

繃

1. to stretch; to draw firmly; to strap
2. to brace; to taut
3. (of an object) to spring up; to bounce
4. (literary, or in compounds, crafts) embroidery frame
5. (literary, or in compounds) bed frame
6. sling, piece of cloth used to carry a baby on one's back
7. (dialectal) to swindle; to cheat
8. (Internet slang) Short for 繃不住／绷不住 (bēngbùzhù, “to burst out laughing”).

• (embroidery frame): 繃子／绷子 (bēngzi)

繃

1. to strain one's muscles
2. to pull one's face
3. (Cantonese) to stretch, to set up (a mosquito net, a banner, etc)
4. (Cantonese) Alternative form of 掹 (“to pull”)

• (to stiffen one's face): 板 (bǎn)

繃

1. (chiefly Beijing and Southwestern Mandarin, Jin) to split open; to crack; alternative form of 迸 (bèng)

• 裂 (liè)

Some compounds are attested at least since Ming dynasty. May be related to 綁／绑 (bǎng) (in 緊綁綁／紧绑绑) used in Yuan era plays.

Mandarin dialects generally use reduplicated 邦 (bāng) instead (e.g. in 硬邦邦 (yìngbāngbāng)), also spelled 梆 (bāng) or 幫／帮 (bāng). See also Hokkien 迸 (piàng) (in 硬迸迸 (ngē-piàng-piàng), 緊迸迸／紧迸迸 (kín-piàng-piàng), etc.).

very; terribly

Same as above, but without reduplication. Used prepositively in a few collocations. Most Standard Chinese dictionaries nominally assign the bèng reading to this sense and merge it with Etymology 3, but Northeastern Mandarin and Xiang dialects where it is actually used have the dark level tone for it (corresponding to Beijing Mandarin bēng). See also 迸 (bèng, “(dialectal Mandarin) very dry; crisp; brittle”).

繃

1. (chiefly Wu, Cantonese, dialectal Mandarin, in reduplication) intensifier used in ideophones
2. (Wu, Xiang, dialectal Mandarin) very; terribly

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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• Go-on: ひょう (hyō)
• Kan-on: ほう (hō)
• Kun: たばねる (tabaneru, 繃ねる); つかね (tsukane); まく (maku)

繃 • (bung) (hangeul 붕, revised bung, McCune–Reischauer pung, Yale pung)

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繃: Hán Nôm readings: banh, băng, bắng

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