HSK 3.0 Level 3 · School

班级 bānjí “class (of students)” in Chinese

Traditional 班級

What 班级 means

  1. class (of students)
  2. class (group of students)
  3. grade (in school)

How to say 班级

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale班bān1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale级jí2nd tone, rising

班级 in a sentence

  1. 新的班级怎么样？

    Xīn de bānjí zěnmeyàng?

    How’s the new class?

    Sentence #8756332 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我的班级有三十名学生。

    Wǒ de bānjí yǒu sānshí míng xuésheng.

    There are 30 students in my class.

    Sentence #13549454 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  3. 我们在同一个班级学英文。

    Wǒmen zài tóng yí ge bānjí xué Yīngwén.

    We study English in the same class.

    Sentence #13249553 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 班级 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 班 (bān) with each of its parts in a different colour
班bānteam; class; grade
  • 王king · wáng
  • 刂knife form of 刀 · dāo
  • 王king · wáng

Memory aidA knife 刂 between two pieces of jade 王: to divide into groups, a class.

The character 级 (jí) with each of its parts in a different colour
级jílevel
  • 纟silk form of 糸 · mìMeaning part
  • 及to extend · jíSound part

纟 hints at the meaning (silk); 及 (jí) hints at the sound. Compare it with jí.

How to write 班级

班 10 strokes · 级 6 strokes

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班级 (bānjí) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 班级 (bānjí). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 班级

Words with 班

下班xiàbān · to finish work上班shàngbān · to go to work班bān · team加班jiābān · to work overtime航班hángbān · (scheduled) flight值班zhíbān · to be on duty

Words with 级

年级niánjí · grade超级chāojí · super初级chūjí · elementary高级gāojí · high level上级shàngjí · superior等级děngjí · grade级别jíbié · level

More words: School & Work

放学fàngxué · to finish school (for the day)画家huàjiā · painter笔记bǐjì · notes休假xiūjià · to take leave课本kèběn · textbook字典zìdiǎn · dictionary (of characters)留学生liúxuéshēng · international student课文kèwén · text (of a lesson)

FAQs

班级 (bānjí) means “class (of students)” or “class (group of students)”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it bānjí: bān with a 1st tone, then jí with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 班级 is written 班級. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type banji with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 班级 from the suggestions. Typing banji into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
班级 is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 5 word list. It is not on the older HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.