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Translingual [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 𤤴 (two jade) +  (knife)

To cut jade to pieces with knife.

Han character [edit]

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

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

References [edit]

  • 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

Cantonese [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(jyutping baan1, Yale baan1)

  1. (military) squad

Usage notes [edit]

(military): Under the National Revolutionary Army, a platoon () 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.


Japanese [edit]

Kanji [edit]

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. group, party, section

Readings [edit]

Suffix [edit]

(hiragana はん, romaji -han)

  1. group, party
  2. (military) section

Korean [edit]

Hanja [edit]

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


Mandarin [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(pinyin bān (ban1), Wade-Giles pan1)

  1. (military) squad

Usage notes [edit]

(military): Under the National Revolutionary Army, a platoon () 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 [edit]


Vietnamese [edit]

Han character [edit]

(ban, băn)