板 — board; plank; plate
board; plank; plate; shutter; table tennis bat; clappers
- Pinyin
- bǎn · pàn
- Strokes
- 8
- HSK level
- HSK 3
- Handwriting
- required
This character has more than one reading — bǎn, pàn — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.
How to write 板: 8 strokes
Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. This character is on the HSK handwriting list, so the exam expects you to write it, not only recognise it.
Words with 板 in the HSK syllabus: 7
Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.
- 黑板hēibǎnblackboardHSK 3
- 老板lǎobǎnRobamHSK 5
- 板块bǎnkuàislab; tectonic plate; sector; blocHSK 7–9
- 地板dìbǎnfloorHSK 7–9
- 叫板jiàobǎnto signal the musicians; to challengeHSK 7–9
- 拍板pāibǎnwooden clappers; to beat time with clappersHSK 7–9
- 天花板tiānhuābǎnceiling; upper limit; the very bestHSK 7–9
Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.