HSK 3 · Education, Work

班 bān “team” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 班 means

  1. team
  2. class
  3. squad
  4. grade
  5. (military) squad
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • work shift
  • classifier for groups of people and scheduled transport vehicles

How to say 班

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale班bān1st tone, high and level

班 in a sentence

  1. 我们班至少有三十个学生。

    Wǒmen bān zhìshǎo yǒu sānshí ge xuésheng.

    There are at least thirty students in our class.

    Sentence #3378105 from Tatoeba

  2. 你在班里有好朋友吗？

    Nǐ zài bān lǐ yǒu hǎo péngyou ma?

    Do you have good friends in your class?

    Sentence #4903419 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 班 also means “shift”, as in 上班 “to go to work”

    我明天不想上班。

    Wǒ míngtiān bù xiǎng shàngbān.

    I don’t want to go to work tomorrow.

    Sentence #11702402 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 班 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.

How to write 班

班 10 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

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

Words related to 班

Words with 班

下班xiàbān · to finish work上班shàngbān · to go to work班级bānjí · class (of students)加班jiābān · to work overtime航班hángbān · (scheduled) flight值班zhíbān · to be on duty

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FAQs

班 (bān) means “team” or “class”. It is an HSK 3 word.
Say it bān: bān with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 班 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type ban with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 班 from the suggestions. Typing ban into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
班 is an HSK 3 word in the 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.