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Mythic Mandarin

板 (bǎn): meaning and stroke order

板 (bǎn) means board, plank, plate, shutter, table tennis bat, clappers (music), 块.

板

Simplified
板
Traditional
板, 闆
Pinyin
bǎn · pàn

Stroke order of 板

板

  • bǎn board; plank
  • bǎn see 老闆|老板, boss
  • pàn to catch sight of in a doorway (old)
  • 8 strokes
  • Traditional form: 闆

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 板

  1. bǎn
    • board
    • plank
    • plate
    • shutter
    • table tennis bat
    • clappers (music)
    • CL:塊|块[kuai4]
    • accented beat in Chinese music
    • hard
    • stiff
    • to stop smiling or look serious
  2. bǎn Traditional 闆
    • see 老闆|老板, boss
  3. pàn Traditional 闆
    • to catch sight of in a doorway (old)

Radical and structure

板
Radical 木 (Kangxi radical 75) · 8 strokes · 木 on the left, 反 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 板

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).