班

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 𤤴 (“two jade”) + 刀 (“knife”)

To cut jade to pieces with knife.

Han character

班 (radical 96 玉+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 一土戈中土 (MGILG), four-corner 1111₄)

1. class, group, grade
2. squad
3. job

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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

班 (jyutping baan1, Yale baan1)

1. (military) squad

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.

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Japanese

Kanji

班 (grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. group, party, section

Readings

• On: はん (han)
• Kun: わける (wakeru)

Suffix

班 (hiragana はん, romaji -han)

1. group, party
2. (military) section

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Korean

Hanja

班 (hangeul 반, revised ban, McCune-Reischauer pan, Yale pan)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

班 (pinyin bān (ban1), Wade-Giles pan¹)

1. (military) squad

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.

Derived terms

• 班子

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Vietnamese

Han character

班 (ban, băn)