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班
班
Translingual
Han character
班 (radical 96 玉+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 一土戈中土 (MGILG), four-corner 11114)
References
- KangXi: page 731, character 19
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20976
- Dae Jaweon: page 1142, character 29
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1113, character 3
- Unihan data for U+73ED
Chinese
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simp. and trad. |
班 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (班) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 班 | *praːn |
| 斑 | *praːn |
Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 𤤴 (“two jade”) + 刀 (“knife”) – to cut jade to pieces with knife.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): baan1
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): pân
- Min Dong (BUC): băng
- Min Nan (POJ): pan
- Wu (Wiktionary): pe (T1)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄅㄢ
- Wade-Giles: pan1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ban
- IPA (key): /pa̠n⁵⁵/
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- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: baan1
- Yale: bāan
- Cantonese Pinyin: baan1
- IPA (key): /pɑːn⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: pân
- Hakka Romanization System: ban´
- Hagfa Pinyim: ban1
- IPA: /pan²⁴/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: băng
- IPA (key): /paŋ⁵⁵/
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pan
- Tâi-lô: pan
- Phofsit Daibuun: pafn
- IPA (Xiamen): /pan⁴⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /pan³³/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /pan⁴⁴/
- IPA (Taipei): /pan⁴⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /pan⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: pe (T1)
- IPA (key): /pᴇ⁵³/
- (Shanghainese)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 班 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 幫 (1) |
| Final (韻) | 刪 (69) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | II |
| Fanqie | 布還切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/pˠan/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/pᵚan/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/pɐn/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/paɨn/ |
| Li Rong |
/pan/ |
| Wang Li |
/pan/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/pan/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
bān |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 班 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
bān |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ pæn › |
| Old Chinese |
/*pˤ<r>an/ |
| English | divide, distribute |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 班 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 224 |
| Phonetic component |
班 |
| Rime group |
元 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
班 |
| Old Chinese |
/*praːn/ |
Definitions
班
- (school) class; group; grade
- (military) squad
- shift; workshift
- Classifier for a group of people.
- Classifier for scheduled forms of transportation, such as flights and trains.
Usage notes
- (military): Under the National Revolutionary Army, a platoon (排) was composed of three squads. With the infantry, the infantry squad would be composed of 14 soldiers, of 10 riflemen, and one light machine gun unit.
Compounds
Derived terms from 班
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Japanese
Kanji
班
- group, party, section
Readings
Suffix
Korean
Hanja
班 • (ban) (hangeul 반, revised ban, McCune-Reischauer pan, Yale pan)
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Vietnamese
Han character
班 (ban, băn)
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