大班

Chinese

		big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor	team; class; rank team; class; rank; squad; a work shift; a measure word; surname
trad. (大班)		大	班
simp. #(大班)		大	班

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dàbān

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˋ ㄅㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daai⁶ baan¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tōa-pan

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dàbān
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄅㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dàban
    • Wade–Giles: ta⁴-pan¹
    • Yale: dà-bān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dahban
    • Palladius: дабань (dabanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹ pän⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dàbānr
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄅㄢㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dàbanr
    • Wade–Giles: ta⁴-pan¹-ʼrh
    • Yale: dà-bānr
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dahbal
    • Palladius: дабаньр (dabanʹr)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹ pɑɻ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: daai⁶ baan¹
    • Yale: daaih bāan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daai⁶ baan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: dai⁶ ban¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːi̯²² paːn⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tōa-pan
    • Tâi-lô: tuā-pan
    • Phofsit Daibuun: doaxpafn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tua²²⁻²¹ pan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tua⁴¹⁻²² pan³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tua²²⁻²¹ pan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tua³³⁻¹¹ pan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tua³³⁻²¹ pan⁴⁴/

Noun

大班

1. (education) large class
2. (education, Mainland China) top grade in kindergarten
3. (Cantonese) senior business executive or entrepreneur operating in China; taipan
   • 1947, 楊工良, director, 《新白金龍》 [The New White Golden Dragon]‎^[1], spoken by 張玉娘 (鄭孟霞 [Cheng Mang-ha]):

     任你係銀行大班　抑或富貴王侯 [Cantonese, trad.]
     任你系银行大班　抑或富贵王侯 [Cantonese, simp.]

     jam⁴ nei⁵ hai⁶ ngan⁴ hong⁴ daai⁶ baan¹, jik¹ waak⁶ fu³ gwai³ wong⁴ hau⁴ [Jyutping]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

4. (Hokkien, dated) Peking opera

Synonyms

• (top grade in kindergarten): (Hong Kong) 高班
• (Peking opera):

Dialectal synonyms of 京劇 (“Peking opera”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		京劇
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	京劇, 京戲
	Taiwan	國劇, 京劇, 平劇, 京戲
	Harbin	京戲
	Singapore	京劇
Jilu Mandarin	Tianjin	大戲
	Jinan	京劇
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	京劇
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	京劇
	Wanrong	京劇
	Xi'an	京劇
	Xining	京戲
	Xuzhou	京戲, 大戲, 二黃戲 dated
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	京戲
	Lanzhou	京戲
	Ürümqi	京戲
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	京戲
	Wuhan	京戲
	Guiyang	京劇, 京戲
	Liuzhou	京戲, 京劇
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	京戲
	Yangzhou	大戲
Cantonese	Guangzhou	京劇
	Hong Kong	京劇
	Dongguan	京劇
Gan	Nanchang	京戲
	Lichuan	京戲
	Pingxiang	京戲
Hakka	Meixian	京劇
Huizhou	Jixi	京劇, 京戲
Jin	Taiyuan	京戲
	Xinzhou	京劇
Northern Min	Jian'ou	京戲
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	京戲
Southern Min	Xiamen	京劇, 京班 dated, 大班 dated, 正音 dated
	Quanzhou	京劇, 京班 dated, 大班 dated
	Zhangzhou	京劇, 京班 dated, 大班 dated, 正音 dated
	Taipei	京戲, 正音
	Haikou	京戲
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	京劇
Wu	Shanghai	京戲, 大戲 dated
	Shanghai (Songjiang)	大戲, 京班戲
	Shanghai (Jiading)	大戲
	Shanghai (Chongming)	京戲
	Suzhou	京戲, 大戲 dated
	Danyang	京戲, 大戲
	Hangzhou	京戲
	Ningbo	京戲
	Wenzhou	京戲
	Jinhua	京劇
Xiang	Changsha	京戲
	Loudi	京戲

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “large class”): 小班 (xiǎobān)

Derived terms

• 大班椅

 

Descendants

• → English: taipan
• → Khmer: តាយប៉ាន (taay paan)