How to say "help!" in Chinese

When To Use It

"help!" maps to 帮帮我！ (bāngbang wǒ!), a urgent emergency phrase for safety situations.

This belongs in risk-sensitive moments where concise wording is better than sounding elegant.

Practice it first exactly as written, then swap in your own people, places, or objects so it becomes part of your active speaking repertoire.

Tone And Delivery

The register is urgent, so speed and clarity take priority over elegance. Deliver it firmly, then add the key detail right away.

Because this is marked beginner, you should aim to recognize it instantly and reuse it with your own names, nouns, locations, or numbers.

A good practice target is the example sentence 帮帮我，我的钱包不见了！ (bāngbang wǒ, wǒ de qiánbāo bú jiàn le!). Once that feels natural, shorten your pause and try it at conversation speed.

Practice Ideas

This phrase becomes more useful when you learn it as part of a mini-sequence. After saying it, a natural next step could be 快报警 (kuài bàojǐng).

A second nearby phrase to review is 快叫救护车 (kuài jiào jiùhùchē), which helps you stay in the same topic instead of translating from scratch again.

• Read the example “Help, my wallet is missing!” aloud, then replace one detail with your own information.
• Pair it with “Call the police” next so your conversation does not stop after a single line.
• In urgent contexts, slow down just enough for the listener to catch the key nouns after the main phrase.
• If you hear a slightly different version in the wild, compare the tone and context before treating it as interchangeable.