The Chinese word 班 means “class” or “team” and is commonly used to refer to a group of people who work or study together. For example, in a school setting, 班 can be used to refer to a specific class of students, such as 一年级班 which means “first grade class”. In a workplace, 班 can be used to refer to a shift or work schedule, such as 白班 which means “day shift” or 夜班 which means “night shift”.
Noun: class, team, squad
Measure Word: for groups, rankings, etc.
|我们的班有三十个学生||wǒmen de bān yǒu sānshí gè xuéshēng||Our class has thirty students|
|明天早上我要去开班会||míngtiān zǎoshang wǒ yào qù kāi bān huì||I have to attend a class meeting tomorrow morning|
|我们的班主任是一个非常好的老师||wǒmen de bān zhǔ rèn shì yīgè fēicháng hǎo de lǎoshī||Our class teacher is a very good teacher|
|今天下午我们要去实验室上班||jīntiān xiàwǔ wǒmen yào qù shíyàn shì shàng bān||We have to go to the laboratory to work this afternoon|
|我们的班级每周要开一次英语角||wǒmen de bān jí měi zhōu yào kāi yī cì yīngyǔ jiǎo||Our class holds an English corner once a week|
|我们班的同学都很努力学习||wǒmen bān de tóngxué dōu hěn nǔlì xuéxí||The students in our class are all working hard to study|
|我们班的学生来自不同的国家||wǒmen bān de xuéshēng láizì bùtóng de guójiā||The students in our class come from different countries|
班 is part of HSK Level 3 in HSK 2.0. In the newer HSK 3.0 it is part of HSK Level 1.