班
bānTraditional: 班
Translation
class, team, shift, scheduled run
Word origin
Originally depicting 玨 (a pair of jade pieces) split by 刀 (dāo, knife), meaning to divide, from which came the sense of a divided group such as a class, team or work shift.
- Origin
- ideograph
- Root
- 玨 (paired jade) + 刂 (knife, to divide)
Stroke order
班
Examples
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There are thirty students in our class.
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He works the night shift every day.
？
What time does the next bus leave?
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She is the cleverest person in our class.
铁。
I caught the last underground train.
班 (bān) means a class, team or work shift, and also a scheduled run of a bus, train or flight. It is a very common counting and grouping word in daily life.
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 班.
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