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办法

bàn fǎ 4–3

means; method; way (of doing sth)

HSK level
HSK 2
HSK 2.0 level 3 · HSK 3.0 level 2
Characters
2
办 · 法
Syllables
2
bàn fǎ
Frequency
Common
corpus count 538

Part of speech: n

Character by character

  • 办bàn4 strokesHSK 2 traditional 辦manage, do, handle; deal with
  • 法fǎ8 strokesHSK 2law, rule, regulation, statute; France, French

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 没办法。

    Méi bàn fǎ

    There's nothing that can be done.

  • 没有办法。

    Méi yǒu bàn fǎ

    There's no way.

  • 有个办法。

    Yǒu gè bàn fǎ

    There is one way.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 办法. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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