Chinese words starting with “ban”
37 words in our HSK vocabulary start with the syllable ban. They are sorted by how common they are, so the ones you are most likely to meet come first. The 9 most useful of them have their own page — they are listed first below.
Initial b · final an · hear the four tones and see example characters →
- 1st tone 10
- 3rd tone 4
- 4th tone 23
Word counts by tone are counted on the first syllable of each word.
Common words with this syllable
- 办法bàn fǎHSK 2
means; method; way (of doing sth)
- 办公室bàn gōng shìHSK 2
office; business premises; bureau
- 半夜bàn yèHSK 2
midnight; in the middle of the night
- 办理bàn lǐHSK 3
to handle; to transact; to conduct
- 半天bàn tiānHSK 1
half of the day; a long time; quite a while; midair
- 搬家bān jiāHSK 3
to move house; to relocate; to remove (sth)
- 班长bān zhǎngHSK 2
class monitor; squad leader; team leader
- 班级bān jíHSK 3
class (group of students); grade (in school)
- 半年bàn niánHSK 1
half a year
All 37 words
| # | Word | Pinyin | POS | Meaning | Study list |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 办 | bàn | v | to do; to manage; to handle; to go about; to run; to set up; to deal with | |
| 2 | 半 | bàn | m | half; semi-; incomplete; (after a number) and a half | |
| 3 | 班 | bān | n,q,nr | team; class; grade; (military) squad; work shift; classifier for groups of people and scheduled transport vehicles | |
| 4 | 版 | bǎn | n,q | a register; block of printing; edition; version; page | |
| 5 | 板 | bǎn | g,n,v,q,a | board; plank; plate; shutter; table tennis bat; clappers (music); accented beat in Chinese music; hard; stiff; to stop smiling or look serious | |
| 6 | 搬 | bān | v | to move (i.e. relocate oneself); to move (sth relatively heavy or bulky); to shift; to copy indiscriminately | |
| 7 | 半场 | bàn chǎng | half of a game or contest; half-court | ||
| 8 | 扮演 | bàn yǎn | v | to play the role of; to act | |
| 9 | 伴 | bàn | v,g | partner; companion; comrade; associate; to accompany | |
| 10 | 版本 | bǎn běn | n | version; edition; release | |
| 11 | 办事 | bàn shì | v,vn | to handle (affairs); to work | |
| 12 | 办公 | bàn gōng | vn,v | to handle official business; to work (esp. in an office) | |
| 13 | 颁奖 | bān jiǎng | vn,v | to confer an award | |
| 14 | 伴随 | bàn suí | v | to accompany; to follow; to occur together with; concomitant | |
| 15 | 扮 | bàn | v | to disguise oneself as; to dress up; to play (a role); to put on (an expression) | |
| 16 | 伴侣 | bàn lǚ | n | companion; mate; partner | |
| 17 | 颁发 | bān fā | v | to issue; to promulgate; to award | |
| 18 | 拌 | bàn | v | to mix; to mix in; to toss (a salad) | |
| 19 | 半决赛 | bàn jué sài | n | semifinals | |
| 20 | 扳 | bān | v | to pull; to turn (sth) around; to turn around (a situation); to recoup | |
| 21 | 板块 | bǎn kuài | n | slab; (geology) tectonic plate; (fig.) sector (of the stock market or of industry); (economic) bloc | |
| 22 | 半数 | bàn shù | m | half the number; half | |
| 23 | 办事处 | bàn shì chù | n | office; agency | |
| 24 | 颁布 | bān bù | v,vn | to issue; to proclaim; to enact (laws, decrees etc) | |
| 25 | 半岛 | bàn dǎo | n | peninsula | |
| 26 | 斑点 | bān diǎn | n | spot; stain; speckle | |
| 27 | 伴奏 | bàn zòu | v,vn | to accompany (musically) | |
| 28 | 搬迁 | bān qiān | v,vn | to move; to relocate; removal | |
| 29 | 半路 | bàn lù | n | halfway; midway; on the way | |
| 30 | 班主任 | bān zhǔ rèn | n | teacher in charge of a class | |
| 31 | 半途而废 | bàn tú ér fèi | v | to give up halfway (idiom); leave sth unfinished | |
| 32 | 半边天 | bàn biān tiān | n | half the sky; women of the new society; womenfolk | |
| 33 | 办学 | bàn xué | vn | to run a school | |
| 34 | 半信半疑 | bàn xìn bàn yí | v | half doubting; dubious; skeptical | |
| 35 | 斑纹 | bān wén | n | stripe; streak | |
| 36 | 半真半假 | bàn zhēn bàn jiǎ | (idiom) half true and half false | ||
| 37 | 办不到 | bàn bu dào | impossible; can't be done; no can do; unable to accomplish |
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