Chinese Character Wiki
班

bān

group

Depicts a knife (刂) cutting a gem into two halves (玨), based on the original meaning "to divide". The meaning later shifted to "division", "group", and "team".

Components
玨 iconic component

玨  Iconic component

jué

  

two pieces of jade joined together

刂 iconic component

刂  Iconic component

dāo

  

knife

刂 is a component form of 刀.

Evolution

班 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
班 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
班 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
班 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

班  

bān

class, group, grade; squad; job; team; class; work shift; ranking; CL:個|个[gè]; classifier for groups

班  

Bān

surname Ban

Most common words with 班
Freq.
Word
Meaning

班

team

上班

to go to work

西班牙

Spain

下班

to finish work

航班

plane

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*pˤ<r>an

paen

bān

divide, distribute


Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 57.7927% of movies

597th most common character in movies

884th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+73ED

Shuowen

“班，分瑞玉。从玨，从刀。”


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