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班 — team; class; grade

team; class; grade; squad; work shift

Pinyin
bān · Bān
Strokes
10
HSK level
HSK 1
Handwriting
recognition only

This character has more than one reading — bān, Bān — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.

How to write 班: 10 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. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

班 — 10 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 班 in the HSK syllabus: 10

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.

  1. 上班shàngbānto go to work; to be on duty; to start workHSK 1
  2. 下班xiàbānto finish work; to get off work; next serviceHSK 1
  3. 班bānteam; class; grade; squad; work shiftHSK 2
  4. 班级bānjíclass; gradeHSK 3
  5. 航班hángbānflight; sailingHSK 4
  6. 加班jiābānto work overtimeHSK 4
  7. 值班zhíbānto work a shift; on dutyHSK 6
  8. 接班jiēbānto take over; to take over; to succeed sbHSK 7–9
  9. 接班人jiēbānrénsuccessorHSK 7–9
  10. 夜班yèbānnight shiftHSK 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.