般
bānbōpán HSK2

sort

般 bān frequency
kind adverbadjective
kind; sort; type; class
[like] particle
Used after a noun to mean "like" or "as if", making the noun into a description of something else.

他有着音乐般的声音。

tā yǒu​zhe yīn​yuè bān de shēng​yīn.

He has a musical voice.

我能感觉到，所有的人都怀着节日般的心情。

wǒ néng gǎn​jué dào, suǒ​yǒu de rén dōu huái zhe jié​rì bān de xīn​qíng.

I could tell that everyone was in a festive mood.

same adjective
same as; identical to; often used in comparisons of size or quality
surname
a Chinese surname
般 bō
(bound form) wisdom
(bound form) used in the Buddhist term 般若 bō​rě for "wisdom"
般 pán
(bound form) to enjoy
(bound form) to indulge in pleasure or to wander
Pan
Name of a poem in the Zhou Hymns (周颂 zhōu​sòng) section of the 诗经 shī​jīng (Classic of Poetry)

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Frequency
Character
Written text
629th most common 329.4 per million
Movie subtitles
1,032nd most common 98.4 per million appears in 42% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
45.5 per million appears in 17% of films
Written text
73.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+822C

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