班
Ancient forms
2 formsGlyphs: Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
Meaning
bān ban1
- team; class; grade
- (military) squad
- work shift
- classifier for groups of people and scheduled transport vehicles
- surname Ban
Example sentences
- The buses run every ten minutes.
HSK words with 班
- 上班 shàngbān to go to work
- 下班 xiàbān to finish work
- 班长 bānzhǎng class monitor
- 班级 bānjí class (group of students)
- 航班 hángbān (scheduled) flight; (scheduled) sailing
- 加班 jiābān to work overtime
- 培训班 péixùnbān training class
- 值班 zhíbān to work a shift
- 班主任 bānzhǔrèn teacher in charge of a class
- 西班牙语 Xībānyáyǔ Spanish language
- 上班族 shàngbānzú office workers (as social group)
- 夜班 yèbān night shift
- 接班人 jiēbānrén successor
- 接班 jiēbān to take over (from those working the previous shift)