棒喝 Save Sign in to save words bànghè ㄅㄤˋ ㄏㄜˋ practice in which a novice monk is shouted at or hit with a stick with the purpose of bringing about instant awakening (Buddhism) to rebuke sternly Character by character 棒(bàng)stick 喝(hè)shout A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0