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般 — sort; kind; class

sort; kind; class; way; manner

Pinyin
bān · bō · pán
Strokes
10
HSK level
HSK 3
Handwriting
required

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

How to write 般: 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. This character is on the HSK handwriting list, so the exam expects you to write it, not only recognise it.

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

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Words with 般 in the HSK syllabus: 2

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. 一般yìbānsame; ordinary; so-so; common; general; generallyHSK 3
  2. 百般bǎibānin hundred and one ways; in every possible wayHSK 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.