(bǎn) - board, plank; boss (in laoban) in Mandarin
bǎnTraditional: 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
板
Examples
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My boss is very busy.
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The boss is not in today.
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The teacher is writing on the blackboard.
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He wrote a few words on the board.
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This board is too heavy.
板 (bǎn) means board or plank; it also forms 老板 (lǎobǎn), boss or shop owner.
Appears in 1 word
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 板.
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