板
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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
- HSK 3.0
- Level 2
- Old HSK
- Level 3
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 木 +4
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 板
- Common rank
- #257
- Unicode
- U+677F
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 板
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 一板一眼 | lit. one strong beat and one weak beats in a measure of music (two beats in the bar) (idio… | |
| 平板手机 | phablet (large smartphone combining features of phone and tablet); CL:台[tai2] | |
| 一板三眼 | lit. one strong beat and three weak beats in a measure of music (four beats in the bar) (i… | |
| 有板有眼 | orderly; methodical; rhythmical | |
| 天花板 | ceiling (of a room); (fig.) upper limit; (slang) the very best (in a given field) | |
| 主机板 | motherboard | |
| 平板车 | handcart; trolley; flatbed truck | |
| 板子 | board; plank; bamboo or birch for corporal punishment | |
| 中板 | moderato | |
| 地板 | floor | |
| 白板 | whiteboard; tabula rasa; blank slate | |
| 行板 | andante; at a walking pace | |
| 身板儿 | erhua variant of 身板[shen1 ban3] | |
| 板面 | pan mee, aka banmian, a Hakka noodle soup dish, popular in Malaysia | |
| 面板 | panel; faceplate | |
| 面板 | board for making noodles or kneading bread dough | |
| 长板 | longboard | |
| 三板 | sampan | |
| 单板机 | single-board computer | |
| 石板路 | road or pavement laid with flagstones |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 反 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 反 sound part | reverse, opposite; contrary, anti- | |
| 饭 | meal, food; cooked rice | |
| 版 | printing block, edition; register; volume, version | |
| 贩 | merchant, peddler; to deal in, to trade | |
| 扳 | to drag, to pull; to twist | |
| 坂 | hillside, slope | |
| 阪 | hillside, slope | |
| 舨 | sampan, wooden boat | |
| 钣 | metal plate; sheet metal | |
| 畈 | field; farm |