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  *半* | 半* | *半
half / semi- / incomplete / (after a number) and a half
HSK 1
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  *搬* | 搬* | *搬
to move (i.e. relocate oneself) / to move (sth relatively heavy or bulky) / to shift / to copy indiscriminately
HSK 3
to prohibit / to forbid / to ban
HSK 4
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  *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
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  *辦* | 辦* | *辦
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
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  *班* | 班* | *班
team; class; grade / (military) squad / work shift / classifier for groups of people and scheduled transport vehicles
HSK 1
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  *版* | 版* | *版
a register / block of printing / edition / version / page
HSK 5
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  *扮* | 扮* | *扮
to disguise oneself as / to dress up / to play (a role) / to put on (an expression)
HSK 7-9
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  *伴* | 伴* | *伴
partner; companion; comrade; associate / to accompany
HSK 7-9
to lift a ban / to lift a curfew
banned book
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  *扳* | 扳* | *扳
to pull / to turn (sth) around / to turn around (a situation) / to recoup
HSK 7-9
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  *阪* | 阪* | *阪
slope / hillside
prohibition / ban
(of a law, contract, agreement, ban etc) to come into force; to go into effect; to become operative
HSK 7-9
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 ban (an athlete) from competitions
prohibition / ban on alcohol
Ban Ki Moon (1944-), Korean diplomat, UN secretary-general 2007-2016
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  *斑* | 斑* | *斑
spot / colored patch / stripe / spotted / striped / variegated
prohibition / ban / law forbidding sth
Snow lion banner, banned flag of Tibetan independence movement, featuring mythological Snow Leopard
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  *拌* | 拌* | *拌
to mix / to mix in / to toss (a salad)
HSK 7-9
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  *般* | 般* | *般
sort / kind / class / way / manner
prohibition / ban on alcohol / dry law
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  *瓣* | 瓣* | *瓣
petal / segment / clove (of garlic) / piece / section / fragment / valve / lamella / classifier for pieces, segments etc
(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
(archaic) title granted to a person / to ban an (online) account
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
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
Jinpingmei or the Golden Lotus (1617), Ming dynasty vernacular novel, formerly notorious and banned for its sexual content
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  *闆* | 闆* | *闆
see 老闆|老板, boss
HSK 3
to dismiss from office / to ban / to reject
to violate a ban
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  *班* | 班* | *班
surname Ban
to lift a ban / to end a lockdown
faithful unto death (i.e. Confucian ban on widow remarrying)
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  *絆* | 絆* | *絆
to trip / to stumble / to hinder
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  *癍* | 癍* | *癍
abnormal pigment deposit on the skin
to prohibit the use of sth / to ban / (computing) to disable
ban on fishing
to ban the sale of
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  *鈑* | 鈑* | *鈑
metal plate / sheet of metal
to go against the rules (of a religious order) / to break a ban (e.g. medical)
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  *粄* | 粄* | *粄
(Hakka cuisine) snacks made from glutinous rice flour (rice cakes, noodles etc)
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  *舨* | 舨* | *舨
sampan
to violate a prohibition or ban / prohibited / illicit
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  *斒* | 斒* | *斒
variegated / striped / marbled
to ban (a play or movie)
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  *姅* | 姅* | *姅
menstruation
embargo / export ban (e.g. on weapons)
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  *瘢* | 瘢* | *瘢
mark / scar on the skin
to ban smoking / to quit smoking / to prohibit cooking / prohibition on opium (esp. in China from 1729)
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
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *昄* | 昄* | *昄
great / expansive
Lu Ban, legendary master craftsman, called the father of Chinese carpentry
a ban on logging
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  *湴* | 湴* | *湴
mud / slush / ooze
banned drug; prohibited substance
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  *頒* | 頒* | *頒
to promulgate / to send out / to issue / to grant or confer
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
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  *秚* | 秚* | *秚
old variant of
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  *坂* | 坂* | *坂
variant of
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  *攽* | 攽* | *攽
variant of 頒|颁
Snow lion, mythological animal, a banned symbol of Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism
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  *岅* | 岅* | *岅
variant of


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