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Kanji Detail for 班 - "group, team, distribute"

  • Meaning

    班 means "group, team, distribute."

    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.

  • 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.
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