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班
Bān
1. surname Ban
HSK 3 Very Common • Top 1% ✏️ 10 strokes Noun

Character Breakdown (Single character)

班
bān
class, squad, team, work shift
HSK 2 10 丶

Compound Words (20)

上班
shàngbān
to go to work
HSK 2
下班
xiàbān
to finish work
交班
jiāobān
to hand over to the next workshift
倒班
dǎobān
to change shifts
值班
zhíbān
to work a shift
HSK 6
全班
quánbān
the whole class
分班
fēnbān
to divide people into groups, teams, squads etc
加班
jiābān
to work overtime
HSK 4
同班
tóngbān
to be in the same class
坐班
zuòbān
to work office hours
夜班
yèbān
night shift
大班
dàbān
tai-pan
德班
Débān
Durban (city in South Africa)
快班
kuàibān
fast stream (in school)
慢班
mànbān
slow stream (in school)
捐班
juānbān
to contribute
接班
jiēbān
to work one's shift
换班
huànbān
to change shift
日班
rìbān
day shift
早班
zǎobān
early shift

Alternate Entries

班
bān
team / class / squad / work shift / ranking / CL:[[個|个<gè>]] / classifier for groups
HSK 3

Metadata

Category
Chinese
HSK Character Level
2
Character Frequency Rank
883
Word Frequency Rank
864 of 84,292

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