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大班

dàbān
noun #58,768

Meanings

  1. 1 senior class (kindergarten, ages 5-6)
  2. 2 large class (teaching format)
  3. 3 taipan (head of a foreign trading firm)

Examples

HSK 2
我女儿今年上大班，明年就上小学了。
Wǒ nǚ'ér jīnnián shàng dàbān, míngnián jiù shàng xiǎoxué le.
My daughter is in the top year of kindergarten and starts primary school next year.
HSK 3
大班人太多，老师很难照顾到每个学生。
Dàbān rén tài duō, lǎoshī hěn nán zhàogu dào měi ge xuésheng.
A large class has so many students that the teacher can hardly attend to each one.
HSK 7-9
他的祖父是香港一家洋行的大班。
Tā de zǔfù shì Xiānggǎng yì jiā yángháng de dàbān.
His grandfather was the taipan of a foreign trading firm in Hong Kong.

Tips

usage
A kindergarten's three years are 小班 (ages 3 to 4), 中班 (4 to 5) and 大班 (5 to 6). The taipan sense is old, from the foreign trading houses (洋行) of Guangzhou, Shanghai and Hong Kong, and English borrowed the word from Cantonese.

Stroke Order

大 dà
班 bān