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大班

Mandarin · pinyin dà bān

Meanings

  1. tai-pan
  2. business executive
  3. foreign business manager
  4. top class of kindergarten or school grade
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大
dà · big, great, vast, large, high
班
bān · class, group, grade; squad; job
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4–1 · da4 ban1

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

daai6 baan1

Cantonese word readings for 大班. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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daai6 baan1

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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section

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noun

  1. (education) large class
  2. (education, Mainland China) top grade in kindergarten
  3. (Cantonese) senior business executive or entrepreneur operating in China; taipan
  4. (Hokkien, dated) Peking opera

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