上班

Chinese

		up; on; on top up; on; on top; upon; first; previous or last; upper; higher; above; previous; to climb; to go into; to go up	team; class; rank team; class; rank; squad; a work shift; a measure word; surname
simp. and trad. (上班)		上	班

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shàngbān

(Zhuyin): ㄕㄤˋ ㄅㄢ
Cantonese (Jyutping): soeng⁵ baan¹
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sông-pân
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): siōng-pan / siāng-pan / chiūⁿ-pan / chiǔⁿ-pan / chiōⁿ-pan

(Teochew, Peng'im): zion⁶ bang¹ / ziên⁶ bang¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: shàngbān
  - Zhuyin: ㄕㄤˋ ㄅㄢ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shanqban
  - IPA ^(key): /ʂɑŋ⁵¹ pa̠n⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed) (上班兒／上班儿)⁺
  - Pinyin: shàngbānr
  - Zhuyin: ㄕㄤˋ ㄅㄢㄦ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shanqbal
  - IPA ^(key): /ʂɑŋ⁵¹ pɑɻ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: soeng⁵ baan¹
  - Yale: séuhng bāan
  - Cantonese Pinyin: soeng⁵ baan¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: sêng⁵ ban¹
  - IPA ^(key): /sœːŋ¹³ pɑːn⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sông-pân
  - Hakka Romanization System: song´ ban´
  - Hagfa Pinyim: song¹ ban¹
  - IPA: /soŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ pan²⁴/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siōng-pan
  - Tâi-lô: siōng-pan
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sioxngpafn
  - IPA (Xiamen): /ɕiɔŋ²²⁻²¹ pan⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /ɕiɔŋ³³⁻¹¹ pan⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɕiɔŋ³³⁻²¹ pan⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ɕiɔŋ⁴¹⁻²² pan³³/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siāng-pan
  - Tâi-lô: siāng-pan
  - Phofsit Daibuun: siaxngpafn
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕiaŋ²²⁻²¹ pan⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiūⁿ-pan
  - Tâi-lô: tsiūnn-pan
  - Phofsit Daibuun: cviuxpafn
  - IPA (Xiamen): /t͡ɕiũ²²⁻²¹ pan⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiǔⁿ-pan
  - Tâi-lô: tsiǔnn-pan
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕiũ²² pan³³/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiōⁿ-pan
  - Tâi-lô: tsiōnn-pan
  - Phofsit Daibuun: cvioixpafn
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕiɔ̃²²⁻²¹ pan⁴⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: zion⁶ bang¹ / ziên⁶ bang¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsiŏⁿ pang / tsiĕⁿ pang
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡sĩõ³⁵⁻¹¹ paŋ³³/, /t͡sĩẽ³⁵⁻¹¹ paŋ³³/

Verb

上班

to be on duty; to go to work; to begin one's work day; to begin one's shift

我天天上班沒事幹。 [MSC, trad.]
我天天上班没事干。 [MSC, simp.]
Wǒ tiāntiān shàngbān méishì gàn. [Pinyin]
There's never anything for me to do at work.
to be open (for business); to be trading

Usage notes

There are many equivalents for English to work in Chinese, the most common and generic being 工作 (gōngzuò). Use 上班 for shift work, 辦公／办公 (bàngōng) for office or administration work and 幹活／干活 (gànhuó) for physical work.

Synonyms

出勤 (chūqín)

Antonyms

下班 (xiàbān)

Derived terms

上班族 (shàngbānzú)

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