HSK 6 · Work

值班 zhíbān “to be on duty” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 值班 means

  1. to be on duty
  2. to work a shift
  3. on duty

How to say 值班

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale值zhí2nd 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

值班 in a sentence

  1. 我正在值班。

    Wǒ zhèngzài zhíbān.

    I’m on duty at the moment.

    Sentence #714805 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 今天谁值班？

    Jīntiān shéi zhíbān?

    Who’s on duty today?

    Sentence #800232 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 值班 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 值 (zhí) with each of its parts in a different colour
值zhívalue
  • 亻person form of 人 · rénMeaning part
  • 直straight · zhíSound part

亻 hints at the meaning (person); 直 (zhí) hints at the sound. Compare it with zhí.

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 值班

值 10 strokes · 班 10 strokes

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

Words related to 值班

Words with 值

值zhí · to be worth值得zhíde · to be worth价值jiàzhí · value

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航班hángbān · (scheduled) flight

More words: Work & Career

应酬yìngchou · to socialise渔民yúmín · fisherman招收zhāoshōu · to recruit整顿zhěngdùn · to rectify致力zhìlì · to devote oneself to职能zhínéng · function职位zhíwèi · position职务zhíwù · post

FAQs

值班 (zhíbān) means “to be on duty” or “to work a shift”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it zhíbān: zhí 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. 值班 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zhiban with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 值班 from the suggestions. Typing zhiban into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
值班 is an HSK 6 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.