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班
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- 班
- bān · class, group, grade; squad; job
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Mandarin tones
1 · ban1
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
baan1
Cantonese word readings for 班. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
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- group; party; class
- (military) squad
- shift; work shift
- (dated) opera troupe
- (literary) to divide; to distribute
- (literary) to spread out
- (literary) to rank; to arrange
- (literary) rank; grade
- (literary) equal; in the same rank
- (alt. form 頒／颁) (literary) to promulgate; to issue
- Classifier for a group of people.
- Classifier for scheduled forms of transportation, such as flights and trains.
- (in compounds, of transport) regular; scheduled
- (Cantonese) Classifier for classes.
- (Cantonese, figurative) league; rank; level; ability; competence
- (Cantonese) to gather; to assemble
- (literary) to withdraw
- (alt-of, alternative) alternative form of 斑 (bān, “spotted; striped”)
- a surname
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