板 (bǎn)
board; plank; plate; whiteboard
How 板 is written
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 木 — tree
- Traditional
- 板
- Simplified
- 板 (unchanged)
Components
- 木 tree
- ⺁ cliff
- 又 right hand
板 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- bǎn
- board; plank; plate; shutter
- pàn
- to catch sight of in a doorway (old)
Common words using 板
- 平板 píngbǎn
- tablet; flat
- 模板 múbǎn
- template; (architecture) formwork
- 老闆 lǎobǎn
- Robam (brand)
- 主板 zhǔbǎn
- motherboard (computer) (lit. lord board)
- 刻板 kèbǎn
- stiff; inflexible; mechanical
- 叫板 jiàobǎn
- to signal the musicians (in Chinese opera, by prolonging a spoken word before attacking a song); (coll.) to challenge
- 呆板 dāibǎn
- stiff; inflexible; also pr. [ai2 ban3]
- 地板 dìbǎn
- floor
- 天花板 tiānhuābǎn
- ceiling
- 木板 mùbǎn
- slab; board; plank
- 板凳 bǎndèng
- wooden bench or stool; CL:張|张[zhang1],條|条[tiao2]
- 板塊 bǎnkuài
- block; slab; tectonic plate
板 in a sentence
老師把重點寫在白板上。
Lǎoshī bǎ zhòngdiǎn xiě zài báibǎn shàng.
“The teacher wrote the key points on the whiteboard.”
How common is 板?
板 is the 928th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 87.9% of all running text.
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