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HSK
to go to work / to be on duty / to start work / to go to the office
HSK 1
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
to finish work; to get off work / next service (train, bus etc)
HSK 1
class monitor / squad leader / team leader / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
class (group of students) / grade (in school)
HSK 3
to work overtime
HSK 4
(scheduled) flight; (scheduled) sailing
HSK 4
training class
HSK 4
to work a shift / on duty
HSK 5
Spanish language
HSK 6
to take over (from those working the previous shift) / to take over (in a leadership role etc) / to succeed sb
HSK 7-9
night shift
HSK 7-9
successor
HSK 7-9
to sign up for a class
Spaniard / Spanish person
Brisbane, capital of Queensland, Australia
Baima or Banma county (Tibetan: pad ma rdzong) in Golog Tibetan autonomous prefecture 果洛州, Qinghai
tai-pan / business executive / foreign business manager / top class of kindergarten or school grade
the Taliban, Islamist organization that emerged in the mid-1990s in Afghanistan
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *班* | 班* | *班
surname Ban
connecting flight
(Tw) grouping of students into classes of mixed ability
class meeting (in schools)
erhua variant of 早班
Banks (surname) / Banksy (UK artist)
organized group / theatrical troupe
Spain
group or team (in factories etc)
middle shift; swing shift; early night shift / middle class in kindergarten (4–5 year olds)
to change shifts / to work in turns
regular bus (service)
to work one's shift
to be in the same class / to be in the same squad / classmate
to arrange (shifts, runs, classes etc) in order
early shift; morning work shift
to work office hours / on duty
day shift
to hand over to the next workshift
night shift
supervisor / foreman / head waiter or waitress
(old) school for Chinese opera / formal professional education or training
shift working
airliner / (regular) flight (CL:,,)
Port-of-Spain, capital of Trinidad and Tobago
Dolce & Gabbana (fashion brand)
grade / class number (in school) / flight or run number / flight or run (seen as an item) / shift (work period)
to join a class partway through the course
leader of a theatrical troupe
teacher in charge of a class
(theater) (originally) non-leading actors; supporting cast; (now) key members of a production team (actors, directors, writers etc) / (by extension) key members of a group or organization
short training course
to display one's slight skill before an expert (idiom)
(idiom) to follow the prescribed order; to keep to the working routine
three-shift system (work rostering)
schedule (for flights, voyages etc)
Panchen (Lama) / abbr. for 班禪額爾德尼|班禅额尔德尼
Bangalore, capital of southwest Indian state Karnataka 卡納塔克邦|卡纳塔克邦
to act as substitute / to fill in for sb
Gurbantunggut Desert, northern Xinjiang
to check on sb at his workplace / to come to a movie set to visit one of the actors
last service (of train, bus, boat etc)
jail
Banjul, capital of Gambia
regular passenger or cargo ship / regular steamship service
to skip work / to sneak out of work early
behind schedule / late
day shift
the whole class
to be off duty
(Tw) teacher in charge of a class / homeroom teacher
office workers (as social group)
small, poorly-equipped theatrical troupe that tours small towns and villages / (fig.) makeshift band of individuals / rough and ready outfit
Lu Ban, legendary master craftsman, called the father of Chinese carpentry
class of underachievers / dunces' class (Tw)
Spanish (language)
to start and finish work
Durban (city in South Africa)
(Tw) to take over sb's job; to substitute for
Ban Gu (32-92), Eastern Han dynasty historian, wrote the Dynastic History of Western Han 漢書|汉书
to take over sb else's job / to substitute for
to withdraw troops from the front / to return in triumph
route (of a bus etc)
classmate
last bus or train / last chance
Ban Chao (33-102), noted Han diplomat and military man
overtime pay
to group students into classes / to divide people (staff members etc) into groups
cram class / cram school / evening classes
variant of 按部就班
(Tw) teacher in charge of a class / homeroom teacher
preschool
instructional workshop
original cast / former team
seminar / workshop
Bangui, capital of Central African Republic (Tw)
direct flight
Bunbury, coastal city in Western Australia / Banbury, town in Oxfordshire, England
Bangui, capital of Central African Republic
graveyard shift; late night shift
after-school program (Tw)

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