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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)

班辈
bānbèi
seniority in the family
航班
hángbān
scheduled flight
HSK 4
班禅
Bānchán
Panchen (Lama)
班车
bānchē
regular bus (service)
当班
dāngbān
to work one's shift
脱班
tuōbān
behind schedule
班房
bānfáng
jail
班白
bānbái
variant of [[斑白<bānbái>]]
班组
bānzǔ
group or team (in factories etc)
班超
BānChāo
Ban Chao (33-102), noted Han diplomat and military man
班玛
Bānmǎ
Baima or Banma county (Tibetan: pad ma rdzong) in Golog Tibetan autonomous prefecture [[果洛州<Guǒluòzhōu>]], Qinghai
留班
liúbān
to repeat a year (in school)
翘班
qiàobān
to skip work
班次
bāncì
order of classes or grades at school
上班
shàngbān
to go to work
HSK 2
班戈
Bāngē
Baingoin county, Tibetan: Dpal mgon rdzong, in Nagchu prefecture [[那曲地區|那曲地区<Nàqǔdìqū>]], central Tibet
班师
bānshī
to withdraw troops from the front
班底
bāndǐ
ordinary members of theatrical troupe
班竹
Bānzhú
Banjul, capital of Gambia (Tw)
班级
bānjí
classes or grades in school

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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