| 班 | bān | team; class; squad; work shift; ranking; CL:个; classifier for groups; surname Ban |
| 班长 | bān zhǎng | class monitor; squad leader; team leader; CL:个 |
| 班子 | bān zi | organized group; theatrical troupe |
| 西班牙 | Xī bān yá | Spain |
| 班组 | bān zǔ | group or team (in factories etc) |
| 接班人 | jiē bān rén | successor |
| 上班 | shàng bān | to go to work; to be on duty; to start work; to go to the office |
| 值班 | zhí bān | to work a shift; on duty |
| 下班 | xià bān | to finish work; to get off work |
| 班级 | bān jí | classes or grades in school |
| 接班 | jiē bān | to work one's shift; to succeed to a position; to take over a job (on the next shift); to relieve sb as successor |
| 交班 | jiāo bān | to hand over to the next workshift |
| 夜班 | yè bān | night shift |
| 班主任 | bān zhǔ rèn | a teacher in charge of a class |
| 班固 | Bān Gù | Ban Gu (32-92), Eastern Han dynasty historian, wrote the Dynastic History of Western Han 汉书 |
| 班禅 | Bān chán | Bainqen or Panchen Lama, one of two Tibetan spiritual leaders |
| 跟班 | gēn bān | attendant; footman (servant) |
| 鲁班 | Lǔ Bān | Lu Ban, legendary master craftsman, called the father of Chinese carpentry |
| 换班 | huàn bān | to change shift; the next work shift; to relieve (a workman on the previous shift); to take over the job |
| 班次 | bān cì | order of classes or grades at school; number of runs or flights |
| 班机 | bān jī | airliner; airplane; plane; CL:趟,次 |
| 班珠尔 | Bān zhū ěr | Banjul, capital of Gambia |
| 班车 | bān chē | regular bus (service) |
| 加班 | jiā bān | to work overtime |
| 轮班 | lún bān | shift working |
| 短训班 | duǎn xùn bān | short training course |
| 班吉 | Bān jí | Bangui, capital of Central African Republic |
| 航班 | háng bān | scheduled flight; flight number; plane; scheduled sailing; sailing number; passenger ship |
| 坐班 | zuò bān | to work office hours; on duty |
| 上下班 | shàng xià bān | to start and finish work |
| 上下班时间 | shàng xià bān shí jiān | rush hour |
| 上班族 | shàng bān zú | office workers (as social group) |
| 上班时间 | shàng bān shí jiān | time of going to work; the morning rush hour |
| 交接班 | jiāo jiē bān | to change shift |
| 倒班 | dǎo bān | to change shifts; to work in turns |
| 佣人领班 | yōng rén lǐng bān | butler; - 佳木斯大學 佳木斯大學 ; Jiamusi University (Heilongjiang) |
| 全班 | quán bān | the whole class |
| 分班 | fēn bān | to divide people into groups, teams, squads etc |
| 北部拉班特 | běi bù lā bān tè | Noord Brabant |
| 古尔班通古特沙漠 | Gǔ ěr bān tōng gǔ tè shā mò | Gurbantunggut Desert in |
| 同班 | tóng bān | to be in the same class; to be in the same squad; classmate |
| 同班同学 | tóng bān tóng xué | classmate |
| 唱诗班 | chàng shī bān | choir |
| 单班课 | dān bān kè | individual lesson; one-on-one class |
| 坐班房 | zuò bān fáng | to be in prison |
| 埃德・米利班德 | Āi dé · Mǐ lì bān dé | Ed Milliband, UK labor politician, opposition leader from 2010 |
| 培训班 | péi xùn bān | training class |
| 塔利班 | Tǎ lì bān | Taliban (Farsi: student), Afghan guerrilla faction |
| 大班 | dà bān | tai-pan; business executive; foreign business manager; top class of kindergarten or school grade |
| 大卫・米利班德 | Dà wèi · Mǐ lì bān dé | David Miliband (1965-), UK politician |