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(bǎn) - board, plank; boss (in laoban) in Mandarin

bǎn

Traditional: 板

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Translation

board, plank; boss (in laoban)

Word origin

A phono-semantic character: the wood radical 木 gives the meaning, since a board is a piece of timber, and 反 (fǎn) supplies the sound.

Origin
phono-semantic
Root
木 (wood radical) + 反 (fǎn, phonetic)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 板

Examples

My boss is very busy.

The boss is not in today.

The teacher is writing on the blackboard.

He wrote a few words on the board.

This board is too heavy.

板 (bǎn) means board or plank; it also forms 老板 (lǎobǎn), boss or shop owner.

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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 板.

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This word is part of lesson 106.