搬 (bān): to move (objects from one place…

Meanings

1 to move (objects from one place to another)
2 to relocate; to move (house)

Characters

搬

bān

move; carry; transport

Contains 扌 (hand radical) — moving things by hand.

Examples

帮我搬一下这个箱子。

Bāng wǒ bān yīxià zhège xiāngzi.

Help me move this box.

他搬到北京去了。

Tā bān dào Běijīng qù le.

He moved to Beijing.

这张桌子太重了，搬不动。

Zhè zhāng zhuōzi tài zhòng le, bān bù dòng.

This table is too heavy, I can't move it.

Tips

grammar

搬 + result complement: 搬走 (move away), 搬来 (move here), 搬进 (move in), 搬出 (move out), 搬不动 (can't move it).

Components

radical

扌 shǒu

hand (radical form of 手)

Left-side hand radical — the indexing radical, side-form of 手. Names the action: hands physically moving heavy things. Same family of carrying/lifting verbs: 抬 (lift), 扛 (shoulder), 搁 (place), 拿 (take), 提 (carry by handle), 扔 (throw).

phonetic

般 bān

kind; sort; like

Right-side 般 supplies the sound bān with no tone shift. 般 itself shows 舟 (boat) + 殳 (pole/oar) — a person poling a boat, originally meaning 'to convey by boat'. The boat-conveying sense is faintly relevant to 搬's 'transport, move' meaning. Same phonetic family: 班 (class/team), 斑 (spotted).