蚌 - bàng - Chinese character definition, English meaning and stroke order

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蚌

Bèng

clamshell

painted shell; painting on shell

mussels; bivalves grown in rivers and lakes

elephant trunk clam; geoduck (Panopea abrupta), large clam with a long proboscis (mainly from Washington State and British Columbia)

(lit.) sandpiper and clam war together (and the fisherman catches both, idiom); fig. neighbors who can't agree lose out to a third party

(lit.) an old oyster producing a pearl (idiom); (fig.) birthing a son at an advanced age

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