般般

bānbān
adjective #30,735

Meanings

  1. 1 every kind
  2. 2 all sorts
  3. 3 (literary) numerous and varied

Examples

Bānbān wùpǐn, yīng yǒu jìn yǒu.
All sorts of goods — everything you could ask for.
Tā bānbān jiē néng.
He is capable of every kind of thing.

Tips

register
Literary / classical reduplication of 'sort, kind' — Xinhua glosses it as 众多 ('appearing numerous'). Mostly found in older texts and set phrases like 般般 ('capable in every respect') or 般般精通 ('skilled in every kind'). In modern speech 各种各样 (gèzhǒng gèyàng) is the everyday equivalent.

Stroke Order

bān