加班

加班 jiābān in a sentence

Working overtime

Full dictionary entry HSK 4 3 sentences

加班 (jiābān) means Working overtime. Below are 3 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.

Dictionary examples

他今天又 加班 了。

Tā jīntiān yòu jiā bān le.

He worked overtime again today.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 加班

这个星期我们经常 加班

Zhège xīngqī wǒmen chángcháng jiā bān.

We have often worked overtime this week.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 加班

From the graded readers

那半年,我几乎每天都 加班 到晚上十点以后。

nà / nèi bàn nián, wǒ jīhū měitiān dōu jiābān dào wǎnshang shí diǎn yǐhòu.

For those six months I worked past ten almost every night.

Graded reader · HSK 4 · Facing Pressure

Questions about 加班

How is 加班 used in a sentence?

This page shows 3 sentences using 加班 (jiābān, "Working overtime"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.

Are these sentences machine generated?

No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.

Is 加班 an HSK word?

Yes — 加班 is on the official HSK 4 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 4 page.

Where can I see the full entry for 加班?

The dictionary page for 加班 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.

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