帮
Meaning
- to help
- to assist
- to support
Example sentence
请帮我一下。
Please help me for a moment.
The character 帮
帮 sets 邦, a state, over 巾, cloth, and now simply means to help. 帮忙 is a verb and its object, so it splits — 帮我的忙, help me out — while 帮助 stays in one piece.