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Mythic Mandarin

办 (bàn): meaning and stroke order

办 (bàn) means to take care of (a matter); to deal with (a task, procedure etc); to organize (an event).

办

Simplified
办
Traditional
辦
Pinyin
bàn

Stroke order of 办

办

  • bàn to take care of (a matter); to deal with (a task, procedure etc); to organize (an event); to establish; to set up; to manage; to run (an enterprise)
  • 4 strokes
  • Traditional form: 辦

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 办

  1. bàn Traditional 辦
    • to take care of (a matter); to deal with (a task, procedure etc); to organize (an event)
    • to establish; to set up; to manage; to run (an enterprise)
    • (law) to handle; to investigate; to prosecute (a case or suspect)
    • (bound form) office (as in 招辦|招办[zhao1 ban4], admissions office) (abbr. for 辦公室|办公室[ban4 gong1 shi4])

Radical and structure

办
Radical 力 (Kangxi radical 19) · 4 strokes · built from 力 and 八

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 办

办 in our stories

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  • 第二天,她就办了一张健身卡,还请了一位教练。

    dì-èr tiān tā jiù bàn le yì zhāng jiànshēnkǎ hái qǐng le yí wèi jiàoliàn

    The next day she got a gym membership and hired a coach.

    From the story Pull-ups HSK 4

  • 曾琳在德国汉堡读书,今年端午节,学校的中国学生会想办一次龙舟比赛。

    Zēng Lín zài Déguó Hànbǎo dúshū jīnnián Duānwǔjié xuéxiào de Zhōngguó xuéshenghuì xiǎng bàn yí cì lóngzhōu bǐsài

    Zeng Lin was studying in Hamburg, Germany. This year, for the Dragon Boat Festival, the Chinese students' association wanted to hold a dragon boat race.

    From the story Dragon boats in Hamburg HSK 5

  • 龙王听说后很不高兴:鱼都被打光了,我的水族怎么办?

    Lóngwáng tīngshuō hòu hěn bù gāoxìng yú dōu bèi dǎ guāng le wǒ de shuǐzú zěnme bàn

    When the Dragon King heard this he was most displeased: if all the fish are caught, what becomes of my water creatures?

    From the story The Dragon King of the Jing River HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 办

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).