班
Meaning
- team; class; grade
- (military) squad
- work shift
Example sentence
我们班有三十个学生。
Our class has thirty students.
The character 班
Two pieces of jade with a knife between them — dividing a whole into portions, hence a group or a class. 上班 and 下班 start and end the working shift, 班长 heads the class, and 航班 is a scheduled flight.