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| English Definition | board; plank; plate; shutter; table tennis bat; clappers (music); accented beat in Chinese music; hard; stiff; to stop smiling or look serious |
| See also | bǎn see 老板, boss (from traditional character 闆) pàn to catch sight of in a doorway (old) (from traditional character 闆) |
| Simplified Script | 板 |
| Traditional Script | Same |
| Pinyin | bǎn |
| Effective Pinyin (After Tone Sandhi) | Same |
| Zhuyin (Bopomofo) | ㄅㄢˇ |
| Cantonese (Jyutping) | baan2 |
| Part of Speech | (名) noun |
| Measure Words | 块 |
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