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闆

bǎn

boss, the owner, person in charge

Strokes
17
Radical
門
HSK
—
Tone
3

Other readings: pǎn

Simplified form: 板

Stroke order

Our word list and example sentences are in simplified characters. Everything below is for 板, the simplified form of 闆. We do not have a traditional-script corpus to draw the words from, so they are shown as they are written in simplified Chinese.

Example sentences

  • 老板就是我。

    Lǎo bǎn jiù shì wǒ

    I'm the boss.

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  • 老板在那里吗?

    Lǎo bǎn zài nà li ma

    The boss is there?

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  • 我不是死板的。

    Wǒ bù shì sǐ bǎn de

    I'm not inflexible.

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  • 看看黑板。

    K nk n h ib n

    Look at the blackboard.

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Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words containing 板

  • 黑板hēi bǎn 1–3 blackboard
  • 老板lǎo bǎn 3–3 → 2–3boss; business proprietor
  • 板bǎn 3board; plank; plate; shutter; table tennis bat; clappers (music); accented beat in Chinese music; hard; stiff; to stop smiling or look serious
  • 地板dì bǎn 4–3 floor
  • 板块bǎn kuài 3–4 slab; (geology) tectonic plate; (fig.) sector (of the stock market or of industry); (economic) bloc
  • 木板mù bǎn 4–3 slab; board; plank
  • 叫板jiào bǎn 4–3 to signal the musicians (in Chinese opera, by prolonging a spoken word before attacking a song); (coll.) to challenge
  • 拍板pāi bǎn 1–3 clapper-board; auctioneer's hammer; to beat time with clappers
  • 板pàn 4to catch sight of in a doorway (old)