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Kanji Detail for 班 - "group"

班

  • Meaning

    班 means "group." Also associated with to divide, to assign.

    1. Divide - To distribute; to allocate; to split.

    2. Rank - To determine order, sequence, or class.

    3. Group - A team; a squad; a unit.

    4. Return - To go back; to circulate; to bring back.

    5. Spread - To lay out; to extend.

  • Words using 班

    • 首班 しゅはん Listen head; leader; prime minister

  • Tattoo check: 班

    • Verified meaning: group
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Also carries these associations: to divide, to assign

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Compare with other kanji that mean the same thing:

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    squad; corps; unit; group

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    class, group, grade; squad; job

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    surname Ban

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    class, squad, team, work shift

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    To distribute. Dividing things among people. The character is also written as 頒. | To spread out. 班荊 means spreading brambles on the ground as seating. When meeting friends hastily, exchanging feelings of friendship. The story of Chu's Wu Ju and Cai's Sheng Zi from Spring and Autumn period. Seen in (Zuo Zhuan). | Rank. In public gatherings, people are arranged by status and age in rows of equals, called 班. Those of equal status are called 同班 (same class). | To return. Returning from a military campaign is called 班師.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    han(ハン) ハン

  • Kunyomi

    tip
    none

  • Strokes

    tip

    10 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    玉 王 (tama・tamahen・o・ohen)

  • Related Keywords

    group divide assign allocate separate spread return recall squad team company crew distribute division unit

Sentences including 班

  • My group is always lively.

  • Mark was a work horse on his construction crew.

  • Investigators are trying to pin down the cause of today's fire.

  • Squad Leader Justin, a blip's appeared on the hyperspace radar!

  • As head of the sales team she reports only to the managing director.

  • At the summer camp, she was in charge of the group I belonged to.

  • This math teacher is also the coach of the basketball team.

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