jiào​bǎn HSK7

to signal the musicians

叫板 jiào//bǎn
to signal the musicians
(in Chinese opera) to prolong the final word of a spoken line to signal to the musicians that a song is about to begin
to challenge
(colloquial) to challenge someone; to pick a fight or provoke

Frequency

Written text
1.70 per million

Details

HSK 3.0
Level 7

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Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)