笨
Meaning
- stupid
- foolish
- silly
Example sentence
他比你笨。
He's dumber than you.
The character 笨
笨 is 竹, bamboo, over 本: it began as the pith inside the stalk and came to mean dull. Stupid — 笨蛋 — and clumsy too: 手笨, for hands that will not do as they are told.