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  *班* | 班* | *班
team; class; grade / (military) squad / work shift / CL: 個|个 / classifier for groups of people and scheduled transport vehicles
HSK 1
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  *半* | 半* | *半
half / semi- / incomplete / (after a number) and a half
HSK 1
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  *辦* | 辦* | *辦
to take care of (a matter); to deal with (a task, procedure etc); to organize (an event) / to establish; to set up; to manage; to run (an enterprise) / (law) to handle; to investigate; to prosecute (a case or suspect)
HSK 2
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  *板* | 板* | *板
board / plank / plate / shutter / table tennis bat / clappers (music) / CL: 塊|块 / accented beat in Chinese music / hard / stiff / to stop smiling or look serious
HSK 3
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  *搬* | 搬* | *搬
to move (i.e. relocate oneself) / to move (sth relatively heavy or bulky) / to shift / to copy indiscriminately
HSK 3
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  *闆* | 闆* | *闆
see 老闆|老板, boss
HSK 3
to prohibit / to forbid / to ban
HSK 4
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  *版* | 版* | *版
a register / block of printing / edition / version / page
HSK 5
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  *伴* | 伴* | *伴
partner; companion; comrade; associate / to accompany
HSK 7-9
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  *拌* | 拌* | *拌
to mix / to mix in / to toss (a salad)
HSK 7-9
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  *扮* | 扮* | *扮
to disguise oneself as / to dress up / to play (a role) / to put on (an expression)
HSK 7-9
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  *扳* | 扳* | *扳
to pull / to turn (sth) around / to turn around (a situation) / to recoup
HSK 7-9
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  *班* | 班* | *班
surname Ban
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  *斑* | 斑* | *斑
spot / colored patch / stripe / spotted / striped / variegated
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  *般* | 般* | *般
sort / kind / class / way / manner
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  *鈑* | 鈑* | *鈑
metal plate / sheet of metal
prohibition / ban
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  *斒* | 斒* | *斒
variegated / striped / marbled
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  *阪* | 阪* | *阪
slope / hillside
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  *頒* | 頒* | *頒
to promulgate / to send out / to issue / to grant or confer
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  *絆* | 絆* | *絆
to trip / to stumble / to hinder
Jinpingmei or the Golden Lotus (1617), Ming dynasty vernacular novel, formerly notorious and banned for its sexual content
banned book
(archaic) title granted to a person / to ban an (online) account
to ban (narcotics, a movie etc) / to block (a road etc) / (Internet) to block (a user)
to go against the rules (of a religious order) / to break a ban (e.g. medical)
drugs ban (e.g. for athletes)
embargo / export ban (e.g. on weapons)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *瓣* | 瓣* | *瓣
petal / segment / clove (of garlic) / piece / section / fragment / valve / lamella / classifier for pieces, segments etc
to violate a prohibition or ban / prohibited / illicit
faithful unto death (i.e. Confucian ban on widow remarrying)
prohibition / ban / law forbidding sth
to lift a ban / to lift a curfew
to forbid sb to go out / to confine to one location (e.g. student, soldier, prisoner, monk etc) / to ground (as disciplinary measure) / to gate / to curfew / restriction on movement / ban on visiting a place / out of bounds / off limits / caveat
to dismiss from office / to ban / to reject
History of the Former Han Dynasty, second of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, composed by Ban Gu 班固 in 82 during Eastern Han (later Han), 100 scrolls
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *粄* | 粄* | *粄
(Hakka cuisine) snacks made from glutinous rice flour (rice cakes, noodles etc)
prohibition / ban on alcohol / dry law
to ban smoking / to quit smoking / to prohibit cooking / prohibition on opium (esp. in China from 1729)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *舨* | 舨* | *舨
sampan
to violate a ban
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  *坂* | 坂* | *坂
variant of
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  *癍* | 癍* | *癍
abnormal pigment deposit on the skin
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  *瘢* | 瘢* | *瘢
mark / scar on the skin
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  *岅* | 岅* | *岅
variant of
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  *姅* | 姅* | *姅
menstruation
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  *湴* | 湴* | *湴
mud / slush / ooze
to prohibit the use of sth / to ban / (computing) to disable
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  *昄* | 昄* | *昄
great / expansive
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  *攽* | 攽* | *攽
variant of 頒|颁
Ban Chao (33-102), noted Han diplomat and military man
Ban Gu (32-92), Eastern Han dynasty historian, wrote the Dynastic History of Western Han 漢書|汉书
ban on fishing
to lift a ban / to end a lockdown
a ban on logging
Jinpingmei or the Golden Lotus (1617), Ming dynasty vernacular novel, formerly notorious and banned for its sexual content
Lu Ban, legendary master craftsman, called the father of Chinese carpentry
(PRC) Double Reduction Policy, announced in 2021, aiming to ease pressure on K-12 students by reducing homework and banning for-profit after-school academic classes
prohibition / ban on alcohol
Ban Ki Moon (1944-), Korean diplomat, UN secretary-general 2007-2016
Snow lion banner, banned flag of Tibetan independence movement, featuring mythological Snow Leopard
complete prohibition / total ban
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
History of the Former Han Dynasty, second of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, composed by Ban Gu 班固 in 82 during Eastern Han (later Han), 100 scrolls
to lift a prohibition / to lift a ban
to prohibit / to ban / to suppress
to ban the sale of
to ban (a play or movie)
to ban (an athlete) from competitions
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *秚* | 秚* | *秚
old variant of
Snow lion, mythological animal, a banned symbol of Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism


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