bān

move, relocate

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
扌 meaning component

  Meaning component

shoushǒu

  

hand

is a component form of .

般 sound component

  Sound component

bānpán

  

sort

Definitions

 

bān

transfer, move, remove, shift; to move (i.e. relocate oneself); to move (sth relatively heavy or bulky); to shift; to copy indiscriminately

Most common words with 搬
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to shift

搬家

removal

搬迁

to move

搬走

to carry

搬运

freight

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*Cə.pˤan

pan

bān

move


Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 37.6582% of movies

950th most common character in movies

1766th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+642C


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