bān
move, relocate
Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 般 represents the sound.
bān
transfer, move, remove, shift; to move (i.e. relocate oneself); to move (sth relatively heavy or bulky); to shift; to copy indiscriminately
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*Cə.pˤan | pan | bān | move |
HSK level 3
Appears in 37.6582% of movies
950th most common character in movies
1766th most common character in books
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+642C |