IDENTITY
班bānclass; team; shift
HSK 1Top 300
CORE MEANING
class; team; shift
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.class (of students)HSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 王jade radical (wáng)
- strokes
- 10
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿲王②王
- jade
- jade
USAGE
Common words
上班shàngbānto go to work
班级bānjíclass
班长bānzhǎngclass monitor
Graded examples
我爸爸每天上班。Wǒ bàba měitiān shàngbān.HSK2
My dad goes to work every day.
RELATIONS
In these chengyu
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 斑
LEARNING
Memory aid
Two pieces of jade (王) divided with a knife — a group split into shifts, a class.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #300
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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