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Definition 2025
大班
大班
Chinese
big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor
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team; class; rank; squad; a work shift; a measure word; (a surname)
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simp. and trad. (大班) |
大 | 班 | |
Noun
大班
- the top grade in a kindergarten
- (Cantonese) a senior business executive or entrepreneur operating in China; taipan
- (Cantonese, historical) a Chinese representative of a foreign company operated in China during Qing dynasty. The correct Mandarin term is "代办 dài bàn" (Can we clean up(+) this sense?)
- (Min Nan, dated) Peking opera
Synonyms
| Dialectal synonyms of 京劇 (“Peking opera”) | ||
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| Variety | Location | Words |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 京劇 | |
| Mandarin | Beijing | 京劇、京戲 |
| Taiwan | 國劇、京劇、平劇、京戲 | |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong | 京劇 |
| Gan | Nanchang | 京戲 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 京劇 |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 京戲 |
| Min Dong | Fuzhou | 京戲 |
| Min Nan | Quanzhou | 京劇、京班 dated、大班 dated |
| Xiamen | 京劇、京班 dated、大班 dated、正音 dated | |
| Zhangzhou | 京劇、京班 dated、大班 dated、正音 dated | |
| Taipei | 京戲、正音 | |
| Wu | Shanghai | 京戲 |
| Xiang | Changsha | 京戲 |
Descendants
- English: taipan