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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *半* | 半* | *半
half / semi- / incomplete / (after a number) and a half
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *办* | 办* | *办
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) / (bound form) office (as in 招辦|招办, admissions office) (abbr. for 辦公室|办公室)
HSK 2
(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
drugs ban (e.g. for athletes)
to prohibit / to forbid / to ban
HSK 4
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *搬* | 搬* | *搬
to move (i.e. relocate oneself) / to move (sth relatively heavy or bulky) / to shift / to copy indiscriminately
HSK 3
to lift a ban / to lift a curfew
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *扮* | 扮* | *扮
to disguise oneself as / to dress up / to play (a role) / to put on (an expression)
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *伴* | 伴* | *伴
partner; companion; comrade; associate / to accompany
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *阪* | 阪* | *阪
slope / hillside
prohibition / ban
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *板* | 板* | *板
see 老闆|老板, boss
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *版* | 版* | *版
a register / block of printing / edition / version / page
HSK 5
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
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *斑* | 斑* | *斑
spot / colored patch / stripe / spotted / striped / variegated
prohibition / ban / law forbidding sth
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *扳* | 扳* | *扳
to pull / to turn (sth) around / to turn around (a situation) / to recoup
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *般* | 般* | *般
sort / kind / class / way / manner
ban on fishing
prohibition / ban on alcohol / dry law
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *瓣* | 瓣* | *瓣
petal / segment / clove (of garlic) / piece / section / fragment / valve / lamella / classifier for pieces, segments etc
to ban (an athlete) from competitions
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *颁* | 颁* | *颁
to promulgate / to send out / to issue / to grant or confer
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)
(of a law, contract, agreement, ban etc) to come into force; to go into effect; to become operative
HSK 7-9
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
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *班* | 班* | *班
surname Ban
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *班* | 班* | *班
team; class; grade / (military) squad / work shift / CL: 個|个 / classifier for groups of people and scheduled transport vehicles
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *绊* | 绊* | *绊
to trip / to stumble / to hinder
to lift a ban / to end a lockdown
Snow lion banner, banned flag of Tibetan independence movement, featuring mythological Snow Leopard
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *癍* | 癍* | *癍
abnormal pigment deposit on the skin
to prohibit the use of sth / to ban / (computing) to disable
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  *钣* | 钣* | *钣
metal plate / sheet of metal
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *拌* | 拌* | *拌
to mix / to mix in / to toss (a salad)
HSK 7-9
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)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *粄* | 粄* | *粄
(Hakka cuisine) snacks made from glutinous rice flour (rice cakes, noodles etc)
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
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *舨* | 舨* | *舨
sampan
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *斒* | 斒* | *斒
variegated / striped / marbled
to ban (a play or movie)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *姅* | 姅* | *姅
menstruation
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *瘢* | 瘢* | *瘢
mark / scar on the skin
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *昄* | 昄* | *昄
great / expansive
a ban on logging
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *湴* | 湴* | *湴
mud / slush / ooze
banned book
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *秚* | 秚* | *秚
old variant of
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *坂* | 坂* | *坂
variant of
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *坂* | 坂* | *坂
variant of
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  *攽* | 攽* | *攽
variant of 頒|颁


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