班
bānBān HSK1

group

班 bān frequency
class noun
a group of students or people organized for a task, grade, or study

我们班有三十个学生。

wǒ​men bān yǒu sān​shí gè xué​sheng.

There are thirty students in our class.

scheduled transport measure word
classifier for groups of people and scheduled transport vehicles such as buses or planes

下一班公共汽车什么时候到？

xià yī bān gōng​gòng qì​chē shén​me shí​hou dào?

When does the next bus arrive?

shift directional
a scheduled period of work time

我明天要上早班。

wǒ míng​tiān yào shàng zǎo​bān.

I have the early shift tomorrow.

班 Bān
Ban proper name
surname Ban

班超是一位著名的历史人物。

Bān chāo shì yī wèi zhù​míng de lì​shǐ rén​wù.

Ban Chao is a famous historical figure.

Cross-References

Classifier

Frequency
Character
Written text
884th most common 197.1 per million
Movie subtitles
597th most common 237.4 per million appears in 58% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
66.6 per million appears in 19% of films
Written text
109.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 2
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+73ED

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