下班

下班 xiàbān in a sentence

Finishes work

Full dictionary entry 1 sentence

下班 (xiàbān) means Finishes work. Below is the one sentence on this site that uses it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.

From the graded readers

下班 以后,我慢慢地走回家。

xiàbān yǐhòu, wǒ mànmàn dì / de zǒu huíjiā.

After work I walked home slowly.

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How is 下班 used in a sentence?

This page shows 1 sentence using 下班 (xiàbān, "Finishes work"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.

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