班

班 (Kangxi radical 96, 玉+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 一土戈中土 (MGILG), four-corner 1111₄, composition ⿲𤣩刂王)

• KangXi: page 731, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20976
• Dae Jaweon: page 1142, character 29
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1113, character 3
• Unihan data for U+73ED

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 玨 (“two jade”) + 刀 (“knife”) – to cut jade to pieces with knife.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(b/p)ral (“to leave, depart, separate”) (STEDT). Cognate with Tibetan བྲལ་བ་ (bral ba, “to be separated”), [script needed] ('phral.ba, “to cause to be separated, to separate”), Miju phɑ̆l⁵³ (“to pull (weeds)”), phɹɯl⁵⁵ lɑ³⁵ (“to collapse”), Thulung phal si- (“to collapse”), Burmese ပြား (pra:, “various”), Jingpho pə³¹-ran³¹.

Karlgren (1933) grouped 班 (OC *praːn), 半 (OC *paːns), and 釆 (OC *brens) into one word family.

Schuessler (2007) also pointed to Austroasiatic comparanda semantically closer to Chinese; such as Khmer រាល (riəl, “to spread, extend, distribute”) and Khmer ព្រាល (priəl, “to spread”) with causative prefix *p-.

Possibly the same etymon as 斑 (OC *praːn, “variegated, spotted, striped”), which may be cognate to 羆 (OC *pral, “brown bear”) (Zhang, 2019).

班

1. group; party; class
2. (military) squad
3. shift; work shift
4. Classifier for a group of people.

   • 跟班friend hea到天光 [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]

     From: Beyond, 遊戲

     gan¹ baan¹ friend hea dou³ tin¹ gwong¹ [Jyutping]

     hanging with friends until dawn

5. Classifier for scheduled forms of transportation, such as flights and trains.
6. Alternative form of 斑 (bān, “spotted; striped”).
7. a surname

   班固  ―  Bān Gù  ―  Ban Gu (historian)

• (military): Under the National Revolutionary Army, a platoon (排) was composed of three squads. With the infantry, the infantry squad would be composed of 14 soldiers, of 10 riflemen, and one light machine gun unit.

• “班”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. group, party, section

• Go-on: へん (hen)
• Kan-on: はん (han, Jōyō)
• Kun: かえす (kaesu, 班す); しく (shiku, 班く); わかつ (wakatsu, 班つ); わける (wakeru, 班ける)
• Nanori: つら (tsura); なか (naka); ひとし (hitoshi)

• (Tokyo) は​ん [háꜜǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])[2][3]
• IPA^(key): [hã̠ɴ]

班(はん) • (-han) 

1. group, party
2. (military) section

班 (eumhun 나눌 반 (nanul ban))

1. Hanja form^? of 반 (“group; class”).

班: Hán Nôm readings: ban, băn

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