HSK 4 · Transport

航班 hángbān “(scheduled) flight” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 航班 means

  1. (scheduled) flight
  2. (scheduled) sailing

How to say 航班

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale航háng2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale班bān1st tone, high and level

航班 in a sentence

  1. 我们的航班被取消了。

    Wǒmen de hángbān bèi qǔxiāo le.

    Our flight was cancelled.

    Sentence #10199249 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我的航班晚点了。

    Wǒ de hángbān wǎndiǎn le.

    My flight is delayed.

    Sentence #9594927 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 我想要再确认一下我的航班。

    Wǒ xiǎngyào zài quèrèn yíxià wǒ de hángbān.

    I’d like to reconfirm my flight.

    Sentence #3078793 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 航班 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 航 (háng) with each of its parts in a different colour
航hángboat
  • 舟boat · zhōuMeaning part
  • 亢high · kàngSound part

舟 hints at the meaning (boat); 亢 (kàng) hints at the sound. Compare it with háng.

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 航班

航 10 strokes · 班 10 strokes

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

Words related to 航班

Words with 航

航天hángtiān · spaceflight导航dǎoháng · navigation航空hángkōng · aviation航行hángxíng · to sail

Words with 班

下班xiàbān · to finish work上班shàngbān · to go to work班bān · team班级bānjí · class (of students)加班jiābān · to work overtime值班zhíbān · to be on duty

More words: Everyday Things

出差chūchāi · to go on an official or business trip出发chūfā · to set off登机牌dēngjīpái · boarding pass高速公路gāosùgōnglù · motorway交通jiāotōng · traffic旅行lǚxíng · to travel签证qiānzhèng · visa百分之bǎifēnzhī · per cent

FAQs

航班 (hángbān) means “(scheduled) flight” or “(scheduled) sailing”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it hángbān: háng with a 2nd tone, then bān with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 航班 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type hangban with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 航班 from the suggestions. Typing hangban into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
航班 is an HSK 4 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.