bān

Traditional: 搬

#1168 of 5,000 Core 5000

Translation

to move (objects), to shift, to relocate

Word origin

A phono-semantic compound with the hand radical marking the action and a phonetic element. It means to shift or relocate something.

Origin
phono-semantic compound
Root
扌 (hand) + 般 (bān, phonetic)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 搬

Examples

They are moving house next month.

Please help me move this table.

He carried the box upstairs.

We relocated to a new city.

It is so heavy that one person cannot move it.

搬 (bān) means to move objects, to shift, to relocate. 搬家 is to move house.

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This word is part of lesson 24.