班

Glyph origin
– to cut jade to pieces with knife.

Etymology
From (STEDT). Cognate with 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

grouped, , and (OC *brens) into one word family.

also pointed to Austroasiatic comparanda semantically closer to Chinese; such as 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬 with causative prefix *.

Possibly the same etymon as, which may be cognate to.

Definitions

 * 1) group; party; class
 * 2)  squad
 * 3) shift; work shift
 * 4)  opera troupe
 * 5)  to divide; to distribute
 * 6)  to spread out
 * 7)  to rank; to arrange
 * 8)  rank; grade
 * 9)  equal; in the same rank
 * 10)   to promulgate; to issue
 * 11)  regular; scheduled
 * 12)  league; rank; level; ability; competence
 * 13)  to gather; to assemble
 * 14)  to withdraw
 * 1)  to spread out
 * 2)  to rank; to arrange
 * 3)  rank; grade
 * 4)  equal; in the same rank
 * 5)   to promulgate; to issue
 * 6)  regular; scheduled
 * 7)  league; rank; level; ability; competence
 * 8)  to gather; to assemble
 * 9)  to withdraw
 * 1)  regular; scheduled
 * 2)  league; rank; level; ability; competence
 * 3)  to gather; to assemble
 * 4)  to withdraw
 * 1)  regular; scheduled
 * 2)  league; rank; level; ability; competence
 * 3)  to gather; to assemble
 * 4)  to withdraw
 * 1)  regular; scheduled
 * 2)  league; rank; level; ability; competence
 * 3)  to gather; to assemble
 * 4)  to withdraw
 * 1)  league; rank; level; ability; competence
 * 2)  to gather; to assemble
 * 3)  to withdraw
 * 1)  to gather; to assemble
 * 2)  to withdraw
 * 1)  to withdraw

Usage notes

 * Under the National Revolutionary Army, a platoon 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.

Kanji

 * 1) group, party, section

Suffix

 * 1) group, party
 * 2)  section