bān
group
Depicts a knife (刂) cutting a gem into two halves (玨), based on the original meaning "to divide". The meaning later shifted to "division", "group", and "team".
Components
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*pˤ<r>an | paen | bān | divide, distribute |
Statistics
HSK level 1
Appears in 57.7927% of movies
597th most common character in movies
884th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+73ED |
Shuowen | “班,分瑞玉。从玨,从刀。” |
Sources
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