Pinyin: bèn

stupid; clumsy

Example sentence

我太笨了,又忘了。

Wǒ tài bèn le, yòu wàng le.

Silly me — I forgot again.

What 笨 means

(bèn) is a Chinese word meaning “stupid; clumsy”. It belongs to the Describing Words topic and appears at HSK 4, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.

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