班 (bān) means Class (group - team - shift - duty). Below are 24 of the 69 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
你们 班 有多少人？
Nǐmen bān yǒu duōshao rén?
How many people are in your class?
Dictionary example · HSK 1 · 多少
他今天又加 班 了。
Tā jīntiān yòu jiā bān le.
He worked overtime again today.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 加班
上 班 要遵守纪律。
Shàngbān yào zūnshǒu jìlǜ.
You must observe the rules at work.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 纪律
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From the graded readers
我们 班 有十二个学生。
wǒmen bān yǒu shí'èr gè xuésheng.
There are twelve students in our class.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · Learning Chinese
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.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · An Anniversary Surprise
我问他：“我可以去上 班 吗？”
wǒ wèn tā:" wǒ kěyǐ qù shàngbān mǎ?"
I asked him, "Can I go to work?"
Graded reader · HSK 2 · Going to the Doctor
我睡得很晚，第二天上 班 总是没精神。
wǒ shuì dehěn wǎn, dì'èr tiānshàng bān zǒngshì méi jīngshén.
I was going to sleep late, and always felt flat at work the next day.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · The Neighbour Upstairs
可是我每天早上醒来，都不想去上 班 。
kěshì wǒ měitiān zǎoshang xǐnglái, dōu bù xiǎng qù shàngbān.
But every morning I woke up not wanting to go in.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Changing Jobs
第二天我报名参加了一个周末的画画 班 。
dì'èr tiān wǒ bàomíng cānjiā le / liǎo / liào yīgè zhōumò de / dì huà huà bān.
The next day I signed up for a weekend painting class.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · A Decision at Thirty
班 里最小的学生十九岁，最大的六十八岁。
bān lǐ zuìxiǎo de / dì xuésheng shíjiǔsuì, zuìdà de / dì liùshí bā suì.
The youngest student in the class was nineteen and the oldest sixty-eight.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · A Decision at Thirty
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
From the travel phrasebook
末 班 车几点？
Mòbānchē jǐ diǎn?
What time is the last train?
Travel phrasebook · High-speed rail and the metro
我的航 班 延误了吗？
Wǒ de hángbān yánwù le ma?
Is my flight delayed?
Travel phrasebook · Airport and immigration
最早的一 班 是几点？
Zuì zǎo de yì bān shì jǐ diǎn?
What time is the earliest one?
Travel phrasebook · High-speed rail and the metro
我赶不上这 班 车了。
Wǒ gǎnbushàng zhè bān chē le.
I'm not going to make this train.
Travel phrasebook · High-speed rail and the metro
From the grammar library
昨天我没上 班 。
Zuótiān wǒ méi shàngbān.
I didn't work yesterday.
Grammar library · HSK 1 · Where time words go
我们 班 有二十个学生。
Wǒmen bān yǒu èrshí ge xuésheng.
There are twenty students in our class.
Grammar library · HSK 1 · 有 — have and there is
班 appears in 69 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Words that contain 班
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 班
How is 班 used in a sentence?
This page shows 69 sentences using 班 (bān, "Class (group - team - shift - duty)"), 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.
Why do some sentences show 班 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 班 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 班 an HSK word?
Yes — 班 is on the official HSK 3 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 3 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 班?
The dictionary page for 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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