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How to write 班 (bān, “team”)

班 (bān), an HSK 1 character, means “team”, “squad” and “work shift”. China and Japan order its strokes differently: Chinese stroke 2, going rightwards, is the 3rd in Japanese schools; Chinese stroke 3, going downwards, is the 2nd in Japanese schools. On its own it is an HSK 2 word; it also forms 上班 (“to go to work”), 下班 (“to finish work”) and 班级 (“class”). Japanese reads it han, “squad”, as a JLPT N1 kanji.

Pinyin
bān
Strokes
10
HSK
1
Radical
王 (“king or jade”)

Stroke by stroke

  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4
  5. 5
  6. 6
  7. 7
  8. 8
  9. 9
  10. 10

As a left-middle-right character it splits into 王 (“king or jade”, the radical), strokes 1–4; 刂 (“knife”), strokes 5–6; 王 (“king or jade”, the radical), strokes 7–10, written the left first.

  1. top leftrightwards
  2. leftrightwards
  3. top leftdownwards
  4. bottom leftrightwards
  5. centerdownwards
  6. topdownwards → down and left
  7. toprightwards
  8. centerrightwards
  9. top rightdownwards
  10. bottomrightwards

Names of the strokes

Two stroke orders

Japan and China order its strokes differently: 4 strokes sit in another place. Japanese 2 = Chinese 3; Japanese 3 = Chinese 2; Japanese 8 = Chinese 9; Japanese 9 = Chinese 8.

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Japanese · KanjiVG · 10 strokes
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Chinese · Make Me a Hanzi · 10 strokes

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Pinyin and meaning

PinyinMeaningsTraditionalIn words
bān
first tone		team; class; grade; (military) squad; work shift; classifier for groups of people and scheduled transport vehicles—上班 下班 班级 加班
HSK 2025 syllabus
level 1
2021 standard
level 1
HSK 2.0
in a level 2 word
Words with it
110 in CC-CEDICT

Words with 班

WordPinyinMeaning
班bānteam; class HSK 2
上班shàngbānto go to work; to be on duty HSK 1
下班xiàbānto finish work; to get off work HSK 1
班级 班級bānjíclass (group of students); grade HSK 3
加班jiābānto work overtime HSK 4
航班hángbān(scheduled) flight; (scheduled) sailing HSK 4
值班zhíbānto work a shift; on duty HSK 6
接班jiēbānto take over; to take over HSK 7-9
接班人jiēbānrénsuccessor HSK 7-9
夜班yèbānnight shift HSK 7-9

HSK words first (CC-CEDICT).

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