搬 (bān): to move (i.e. relocate oneself), to move (sth relatively heavy or bulky), to shift
搬 (bān) is a Chinese character meaning “to move (i.e. relocate oneself).” Classified as HSK Level 3 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 扌 (semantic) and 般 (phonetic). It ranks #1749 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 搬 hand. Its radical form 扌 (hand) appears in many related characters such as 手 (shǒu, hand), 打 (dǎ, hit, make), 找 (zhǎo, to look for).
Definitions
- to move (i.e. relocate oneself)
- to move (sth relatively heavy or bulky)
- to shift
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 搬
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 搬走 | bān zǒu | to carry |
| 搬运 | bān yùn | freight |
| 搬运工 | bān yùn gōng | porter |
| 搬动 | bān dòng | to move (sth) around |
| 搬迁 | bān qiān | to move |
| 照搬 | zhào bān | to copy |
| 搬弄是非 | bān nòng shì fēi | to incite a quarrel (idiom) |
| 搬兵 | bān bīng | to call for reinforcements |
| 搬出去 | bān chū qù | to move out (vacate) |
| 行李搬运工 | xíng lǐ bān yùn gōng | baggage handler |
| 搬起石头砸自己的脚 | bān qǐ shí tou zá zì jǐ de jiǎo | to crush one's own foot while trying to maneuver a rock (to a cliff edge, to drop on one's enemy) (idiom) |
| 搬石头砸自己的脚 | bān shí tou zá zì jǐ de jiǎo | to move a stone and stub one's toe |
| 搬用 | bān yòng | to apply mechanically |
| 搬口 | bān kǒu | to pass on stories (idiom) |
| 搬场 | bān chǎng | to move (house) |
搬 appears in 27 compound words: 93 as the first character, 4 as the last, and 4 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 搬 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (3)
Example Sentences
我们下周要搬到新办公室，离地铁站更近了。
Wǒmen xià zhōu yào bān dào xīn bàngōngshì, lí dìtiě zhàn gèng jìn le.
We are moving to a new office next week, closer to the subway station.
...记 未来5年提供19.6万公屋望止劏房户搬迁潮
. . . jì wèi lái 5 nián tí gōng 1 9 . 6 wàn gōng wū wàng zhǐ 劏 fáng hù bān qiān cháo
... In the next five years, 196,000 public housing units will be provided to stop the relocation of subdivided units
...街地盤工人暈倒昏迷送院 事前疑行多層樓梯搬建築材料
. . . jiē dì 盤 gōng rén 暈 dǎo hūn mí sòng yuàn shì qián yí háng duō 層 樓 tī bān jiàn 築 cái liào
Construction worker collapses and loses consciousness on street, rushed to hospital; suspected to have carried building materials up multiple flights of stairs prior to incident.
新北女搬家後金條不翼而飛 搬家工坦承行竊15萬元...
xīn běi nǚ bān jiā 後 jīn 條 bù yì ér 飛 bān jiā gōng tǎn chéng háng 竊 萬 yuán . . .
New Taipei woman lost gold bars after moving, and the mover admitted to stealing 15 yuan...
黃騰浩退居幕後「忙搬桌椅」! 角頭團隊新作懷秋、吳念軒雙帥登...
黃 騰 hào tuì jū mù 後 máng bān zhuō yǐ ! jiǎo 頭 團 隊 xīn zuò 懷 qiū 吳 niàn 軒 雙 帥 dēng . . .
Huang Teng-hao steps behind the scenes to "busy moving tables and chairs"! The Angled Corner team's new project features two handsome leads, Hwai Qi and Wu Nian-xuan…
愛潑斯坦案—安德魯搬離皇家住所細節 曾用母親作「擋箭牌」:我...
愛 潑 sī tǎn àn ān dé 魯 bān 離 huáng jiā zhù suǒ 細 節 céng yòng mǔ 親 zuò 擋 jiàn pái wǒ . . .
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你真想搬去波士顿？
Nǐ zhēn xiǎng bān qù Bōshìdùn?
Do you really want to move to Boston?
你是什么时候搬到柏林的呀？
Nǐ shì shénmeshíhou bān dào Bólín de ya?
When did you move to Berlin?
你搬不动那台钢琴。
Nǐ bān bù dòng nà tái gāngqín.
You can't lift the piano.
最近我搬到另一栋公寓。
Zuì jìn wǒ bān dào lìngyī dòng gōngyù.
Recently I moved to another apartment.
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