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加班

jiā bān

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word

加班 (jiā bān) means "work overtime". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 加班 means

1. to work overtime

The characters in 加班

• 加jiāto add; (math) plus; to increase; to augment
• 班bānteam; class; grade; (military) squad; work shift

Example sentences

• 他被迫加班。
  He was forced to work overtime.
• 约翰疲于加班。
  John was tired from working overtime.
• 今天我不加班。
  I won't work overtime today.
• 我今晚得加班。
  I have to work overtime tonight.
• 恐怕你要加班了。
  Kǒngpà nǐ yào jiābān le.
  I'm afraid you have to work overtime.
• 我昨天必须加班。
  I had to work overtime yesterday.

Words starting with 加班

• 加班费jiā bān fèiovertime pay

Where 加班 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Work tasks & management (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read jiā bān correctly.
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