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值班

zhí bān

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

值班 (zhí bān) means "to work a shift; to be on duty". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 值班 means

1. to work a shift
2. on duty

The characters in 值班

• 值zhívalue; (to be) worth; to happen to
• 班bānteam; class; grade; (military) squad; work shift

Example sentences

• 今天谁值班？
  Jīntiān shéi zhíbān?
  Who's on duty today?
• 我正在值班。
  Wǒ zhèngzài zhíbān.
  I am on duty now.
• 你几点值班?
  What time are you going on duty?
• 「今天谁值班？」「我值班。」
  "Who's on duty today?" "I'm on duty."
• 暴动开始时只有一位监狱长值班。
  Bàodòng kāishǐ shí zhǐ yǒu yī wèi jiānyù cháng zhíbān.
  There was only one warden on duty when the riot started.

Where 值班 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · zhī (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zhí bān correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.