斑

Cantonese · source Jyutpingbaan1

Meanings

  1. spot
  2. colored patch
  3. stripe
  4. spotted
  5. striped
  6. variegated
  7. speckle
  8. stain
  9. a garoupa
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Same syllable, six tones

baan班baan1team板baan2boardbaan3—baan4—baan5—办baan6to do

Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.

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CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:

  • 斑 bān CC-CEDICT · Mandarinspot; colored patch; stripe; spotted; striped; variegated

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CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: ban1. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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baan1

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

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character · Etymology 1

  1. spot; stripe
  2. spotted; striped; mottled
  3. (literary, of hair) grey
  4. (obsolete) to cut; to split
  5. (Cantonese) grouper (Classifier: 條/条 c)
  6. a surname, Ban

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Original source comment: adapted from cc-cedict

Mandarin comparison: CC-CEDICT 2026-10-13, CC BY-SA 4.0. Source reading differences and six-tone sets: computed by zimai from Unihan 17.0.0 (Unicode License V3).

Exact source record & identity斑 斑 [ban1] {baan1} /spot/colored patch/stripe/spotted/striped/variegated/speckle/stain/a garoupa/ # adapted from cc-cedict

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