班
Meanings
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- 1.team; class; grade
- 2.(military) squad
- 3.work shift
- 4.classifier for groups of people and scheduled transport vehicles
- 1.surname Ban
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Wiktionary
- 1.group; party; class
- 2.squad
- 3.shift; work shift
- 4.opera troupe
- 5.to divide; to distribute
- 6.to spread out
- 7.to rank; to arrange
- 8.rank; grade
- 9.equal; in the same rank
- 10.(literary) to promulgate; to issue
- 11.Classifier for a group of people.
- 12.Classifier for scheduled forms of transportation, such as flights and trains.
- 13.regular; scheduled
- 14.Classifier for classes.
- 15.league; rank; level; ability; competence
- 16.to gather; to assemble
- 17.to withdraw
- 18.a surname
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Etymology
Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 珏 (“pieces of jade”) + 刀 (“knife”) – to cut jade to pieces with knife. The pieces of jade appear as a more conservative version 玨. The knife in the middle is well visibile in the conservative variant 𤤻. Unrelated to 师. From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(b/p)ral (“to leave, depart, separate”) (STEDT). Cognate with Tibetan བྲལ་བ (bral ba, “to be separated”), འཕྲལ་བ ('phral ba, “to cause to be separated, to separate”), Miju phɑ̆l⁵³ (“to pull (weeds)”), phɹɯl⁵⁵ lɑ³⁵ (“to collapse”), Thulung phal si- (“to collapse”), Burmese ပြား (pra:, “various”), Jingpho pə³¹-ran³¹. Karlgren (1933) grouped 班 (OC *praːn), 半 (OC *paːns), and 釆 (OC *brens) into one word family. Schuessler (2007) also pointed to Austroasiatic comparanda semantically closer to Chinese; such as Khmer រាល (riəl, “to spread, extend, distribute”) and Khmer ព្រាល (priəl, “to spread”) with causative prefix *p-. Possibly the same etymon as 斑 (OC *praːn, “variegated, spotted, striped”), which may be cognate to 羆 (OC *pral, “brown bear”) (Zhang, 2019).
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Stroke order
Components
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Example sentences
這班火車已經到了。
The train's here.
這班飛機準時起飛。
The airplane took off on time.
這班火車已經到了。
The train has pulled in.
這班火車已經到了。
The train is here.
這班火車已經到了。
The train has arrived.
这个班有多少男生？
How many boys are in this class?
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Derived terms
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