班長

See also: 班长

Chinese

		team; class; rank team; class; rank; squad; a work shift; a measure word; surname	long; length; forever long; length; forever; always; constantly; chief; head; elder; to grow; to develop
trad. (班長)		班	長
simp. (班长)		班	长

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): bānzhǎng

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄢㄓㄤˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): baan¹ zoeng²
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): pân-chóng
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): pan-tiúⁿ / pan-tióⁿ

(Teochew, Peng'im): bang¹ ziang²
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹pe-tsan

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: bānzhǎng
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄢㄓㄤˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: banjhǎng
  - Wade–Giles: pan¹-chang³
  - Yale: bān-jǎng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: banjaang
  - Palladius: баньчжан (banʹčžan)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pän⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂɑŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: baan¹ zoeng²
  - Yale: bāan jéung
  - Cantonese Pinyin: baan¹ dzoeng²
  - Guangdong Romanization: ban¹ zêng²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /paːn⁵⁵ t͡sœːŋ³⁵/
  - Homophones:
    ^edit
    ^edit
    班長 / 班长
    頒獎 / 颁奖
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: pân-chóng
  - Hakka Romanization System: ban^ˊ zong^ˋ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: ban¹ zong³
  - Sinological IPA: /pan²⁴ t͡soŋ³¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Jinjiang, Philippines)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pan-tiúⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: pan-tiúnn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: pandviuo
  - IPA (Taipei): /pan⁴⁴⁻³³ tiũ⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /pan⁴⁴⁻³³ tiũ⁴¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou, Jinjiang, Philippines): /pan³³ tiũ⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /pan⁴⁴⁻²² tiũ⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Tainan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pan-tióⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: pan-tiónn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: pandvioir
  - IPA (Tainan): /pan⁴⁴⁻³³ tiɔ̃⁵³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /pan⁴⁴⁻²² tiɔ̃⁵³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: bang¹ ziang²
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pang tsiáng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /paŋ³³⁻²³ t͡siaŋ⁵²/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ¹pe-tsan
  - MiniDict: pe^平 tsan
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹pe-tsan
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /pe⁵⁵ t͡sã²¹/

Noun

班長

(education) class monitor; class president; prefect
(military) squad leader
team leader

Synonyms

(class monitor) 級長／级长 (jízhǎng)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
班	長
はん Grade: 6	ちょう Grade: 2
kan'on	on'yomi

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Chinese 班長 / 班长 (bānzhǎng, “squad leader”). First attested in 1917.^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [hã̠ɲ̟t͡ɕo̞ː]

Noun

班(はん)長(ちょう) • (hanchō) ^{←はんちやう (fantyau)^?}

a squad leader
honcho

Descendants

→ English: honcho

References

^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term
班	長

Noun

班長 • (banjang) (hangeul 반장)

hanja form^? of 반장 (“class monitor, class president; squad leader; honcho”)

[KDJ-1] Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN

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