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to prohibit / to forbid / to ban
HSK 4
(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
banned drug; prohibited substance
to lift a ban / to lift a curfew
prohibition / ban
(of a law, contract, agreement, ban etc) to come into force; to go into effect; to become operative
HSK 7-9
to ban smoking / to quit smoking / to prohibit cooking / prohibition on opium (esp. in China from 1729)
prohibition / ban on alcohol
Lu Ban, legendary master craftsman, called the father of Chinese carpentry
Ban Ki Moon (1944-), Korean diplomat, UN secretary-general 2007-2016
prohibition / ban / law forbidding sth
ban on fishing
prohibition / ban on alcohol / dry law
to ban (an athlete) from competitions
to violate a prohibition or ban / prohibited / illicit
to ban (narcotics, a movie etc) / to block (a road etc) / (Internet) to block (a user)
to prohibit / to ban / to suppress
Ban Chao (33-102), noted Han diplomat and military man
Jinpingmei or the Golden Lotus (1617), Ming dynasty vernacular novel, formerly notorious and banned for its sexual content
complete prohibition / total ban
(archaic) title granted to a person / to ban an (online) account
Ban Gu (32-92), Eastern Han dynasty historian, wrote the Dynastic History of Western Han 漢書|汉书
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
embargo / export ban (e.g. on weapons)
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 violate a ban
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surname Ban
to lift a ban / to end a lockdown
Snow lion banner, banned flag of Tibetan independence movement, featuring mythological Snow Leopard
to prohibit the use of sth / to ban / (computing) to disable
to ban the sale of
to dismiss from office / to ban / to reject
faithful unto death (i.e. Confucian ban on widow remarrying)
to go against the rules (of a religious order) / to break a ban (e.g. medical)
Jinpingmei or the Golden Lotus (1617), Ming dynasty vernacular novel, formerly notorious and banned for its sexual content
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
Snow lion, mythological animal, a banned symbol of Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism
to ban (a play or movie)
a ban on logging
banned book


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