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板
bǎn
1. board
2. plank
3. plate
4. shutter
5. table tennis bat
6. clappers (music)
7. CL:[[塊|块<kuài>]]
8. accented beat in Chinese music
9. hard
10. stiff
11. to stop smiling or look serious
Very Common • Top 2% ✏️ 8 strokes

Character Breakdown (Single character)

板
bǎn
board, plank; plate, slab; unnatural, stiff
HSK 3 8 丶

Compound Words (20)

中板
zhōngbǎn
moderato
主板
zhǔbǎn
motherboard (computing)
凹板
āobǎn
intaglio
刻板
kèbǎn
stiff
古板
gǔbǎn
out-moded
叫板
jiàobǎn
to signal the musicians (in Chinese opera, by prolonging a spoken word before attacking a song)
呆板
dāibǎn
stiff
地板
dìbǎn
floor
型板
xíngbǎn
template
基板
jībǎn
substrate
压板
yàbǎn
vise jaw
夹板
jiābǎn
splint
帆板
fānbǎn
sailboard
平板
píngbǎn
tablet
快板
kuàibǎn
allegro
急板
jíbǎn
presto
慢板
mànbǎn
slow tempo
拍板
pāibǎn
clapper-board
拼板
pīnbǎn
lamination
搓板
cuōbǎn
washboard

Alternate Entries

板
bǎn
see [[老闆|老板]], boss
板
pàn
to catch sight of in a doorway (old)

Metadata

Category
Chinese
HSK Character Level
3
Character Frequency Rank
929
Word Frequency Rank
2,071 of 84,292

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