伴
bàn HSK4

companion

伴 bàn
companion noun
partner; associate; person with whom one works, lives, or interacts
to accompany verb
to go along with someone; to keep someone company

音乐总是伴着我。

yīn​yuè zǒng​shì bàn zhe wǒ.

Music is always with me.

surname
a Chinese surname
to provide accompaniment
to perform along with someone to provide musical, vocal, or sound support, as in accompanying a song

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,298th most common 96.5 per million
Movie subtitles
1,009th most common 103.6 per million appears in 39% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
15.7 per million appears in 7% of films
Written text
39.0 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+4F34

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)