板
bǎnpàn HSK2

plank

板 bǎn frequency
board noun
a flat piece of solid material such as wood, metal, or plastic

工人们正在往车上搬运木板。

gōng​rén men zhèng​zài wǎng chē shàng bān​yùn mù bǎn.

The workers are loading wooden boards onto the truck.

serious expression
to stop smiling or maintain a stern facial expression

他板着脸，一句话也不说。

tā bǎn zhe liǎn, yī jù huà yě bù shuō.

He kept a stiff face and didn't say a word.

stiff adjective
hard, rigid, or inflexible in texture or composition

这块地土质太板，需要松松土。

zhè kuài dì tǔ​zhì tài bǎn, xū​yào sōng sōng tǔ.

The soil in this field is too compacted; it needs to be loosened.

beat idiom
musical clappers or the accented beat in traditional Chinese music

他的唱腔很有板有眼。

tā de chàng​qiāng hěn yǒu​bǎn​yǒu​yǎn.

His singing style is very rhythmic and well-measured.

板 (闆) bǎn
boss noun
boss (often used in the compound word 老板 lǎo​bǎn)

他是这家店的老板。

tā shì zhè jiā diàn de lǎo bǎn.

He is the owner of this shop.

板 (闆) pàn
glimpse adverb
to catch sight of in a doorway (old)

这块木板太旧了，已经无法支撑重量了。

zhè kuài mù pàn tài jiù le, yǐ​jīng wú​fǎ zhī​chēng zhòng​liàng le.

This wooden board is too old to support any weight anymore.

Cross-References

Classifier

Frequency
Character
Written text
930th most common 182.6 per million
Movie subtitles
721st most common 178.3 per million appears in 53% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
36.2 per million appears in 10% of films
Written text
91.6 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Traditional
闆
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+677F

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