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搬 (bān): meaning and stroke order

搬 (bān) means to move (i.e. relocate oneself), to move (sth relatively heavy or bulky), to shift.

搬

Simplified
搬
Traditional
搬 (same form)
Pinyin
bān

Stroke order of 搬

搬

  • bān to move (i.e. relocate oneself); to move (sth relatively heavy or bulky)
  • 13 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 搬

  1. bān
    • to move (i.e. relocate oneself)
    • to move (sth relatively heavy or bulky)
    • to shift
    • to copy indiscriminately

Radical and structure

搬
Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 13 strokes · 扌 on the left, 般 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 搬

搬 in our stories

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  • 第二天，她就搬进了这个房间。

    dì-èr tiān tā jiù bān jìn le zhè gè fángjiān

    The next day she moves in.

    From the story The cheap room HSK 3

  • 钱多多搬了新家，想在网上买一个便宜又好看的沙发。

    Qián Duōduō bān le xīn jiā xiǎng zài wǎngshang mǎi yí gè piányi yòu hǎokàn de shāfā

    Qian Duoduo had moved into a new flat and wanted to buy a cheap, good-looking sofa online.

    From the story The ninety-nine-yuan sofa HSK 4

  • 第二天，她把英语课搬到了操场上：投进一个球，就要用英语说一个单词。

    dì-èr tiān tā bǎ Yīngyǔ kè bān dào le cāochǎng shàng tóu jìn yí gè qiú jiù yào yòng Yīngyǔ shuō yí gè dāncí

    The next day she moved English class to the playground: for each basket you scored, you had to say a word in English.

    From the story English on the basketball court HSK 5

Stories using 搬

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).