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一般

yī bān

Old HSK 3 HSK 3.0 level 3 2-character word

一般 (yī bān) means "general; ordinary; common". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was HSK 3 in the old six-level list.

What 一般 means

1. same
2. ordinary
3. so-so
4. common
5. general
6. generally
7. in general

The characters in 一般

• 一yīone; single; a (article)
• 般bānsort; kind; class

Example sentences

• 他们两一般大
  both of them are same age
• 他一般周末在家
  He's generally at home on weekends
• 你一般几点睡觉？
  What time do you usually go to bed?
• 我一般六点起床。
  I usually get up at six.
• 您一般几点下班？
  When do you usually get off work?
• 你一般几点下班？
  When do you usually get off work?

Words starting with 一般

• 一般人yī bān rénaverage person
• 一般来说yī bān lái shuōgenerally speaking
• 一般说来yī bān shuō láigenerally speaking; in general
• 一般性yī bān xìnggeneral; generality
• 一般见识yī bān jiàn shi(idiom) to lower oneself to (sb's) level
• 一般般yī bān bānnot particularly good; so-so
• 一般来讲yī bān lái jiǎnggenerally speaking
• 一般原则yī bān yuán zégeneral principle
• 一般而言yī bān ér yángenerally speaking
• 一般规定yī bān guī dìngordinary provision (law)
• 一般贸易yī bān mào yìgeneral trade (i.e. importing and export without processing)

Words containing 一般

• 天下乌鸦一般黑tiān xià wū yā yī bān hēiall crows are black (idiom); evil people are bad all over the world
• 背着抱着一般重bēi zhe bào zhe yī bān zhònglit. whether one carries it on one's back or in one's arms, it's equally heavy (idiom)…

Sounds the same

Read yī bān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 一斑lit. one spot (on the leopard); fig. one small item in a big scheme

Where 一般 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Sequence, Similarity & Remaining Words (HSK 3), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 3 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read yī bān correctly.
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