板

闆traditional

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bǎn

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

bǎn

used in 老闆|老板[lao3 ban3]

pàn

to catch sight of in a doorway (old)

Measure word: 块 (kuai4)

Examples

老板多留了我三十分钟。

My boss detained me more than 30 minutes.

实在抱歉，老板在睡觉。请您明天再来。

I'm sorry, my boss is sleeping right now. Please come back tomorrow.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.