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
8 strokes
Dict coverage rank #257 U+677F
How 板 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
木 (semantic, “wood”) + 反 (phonetic, fǎn)
How to remember it
plank · Heisig RSH #657
木 tree + 反 against
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 反
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 反 (fǎn) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 反 sound component | fǎn | reverse, opposite; contrary, anti- |
| 饭 | fàn | meal, food; cooked rice |
| 版 | bǎn | printing block, edition; register; volume, version |
| 贩 | fàn | merchant, peddler; to deal in, to trade |
| 扳 | bān | to drag, to pull; to twist |
| 坂 | bǎn | hillside, slope |
| 阪 | bǎn | hillside, slope |
| 舨 | bǎn | sampan, wooden boat |
| 钣 | bǎn | metal plate; sheet metal |
| 畈 | fàn | field; farm |
Words containing 板
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 一板一眼 | yī bǎn yī yǎn | lit. one strong beat and one weak beats in a measure of music (two beats in the bar) (idio… |
| 平板手机 | píng bǎn shǒu jī | phablet (large smartphone combining features of phone and tablet); CL:台[tai2] |
| 一板三眼 | yī bǎn sān yǎn | lit. one strong beat and three weak beats in a measure of music (four beats in the bar) (i… |
| 有板有眼 | yǒu bǎn yǒu yǎn | orderly; methodical; rhythmical |
| 天花板 | tiān huā bǎn | ceiling (of a room); (fig.) upper limit; (slang) the very best (in a given field) |
| 主机板 | zhǔ jī bǎn | motherboard |
| 平板车 | píng bǎn chē | handcart; trolley; flatbed truck |
| 板子 | bǎn zi | board; plank; bamboo or birch for corporal punishment |
| 中板 | zhōng bǎn | moderato |
| 地板 | dì bǎn | floor |
| 白板 | bái bǎn | whiteboard; tabula rasa; blank slate |
| 行板 | xíng bǎn | andante; at a walking pace |
| 身板儿 | shēn bǎn r | erhua variant of 身板[shen1 ban3] |
| 板面 | bǎn miàn | pan mee, aka banmian, a Hakka noodle soup dish, popular in Malaysia |
| 面板 | miàn bǎn | panel; faceplate |
| 面板 | miàn bǎn | board for making noodles or kneading bread dough |
| 长板 | cháng bǎn | longboard |
| 三板 | sān bǎn | sampan |
| 单板机 | dān bǎn jī | single-board computer |
| 石板路 | shí bǎn lù | road or pavement laid with flagstones |