Be at work in Chinese
to be at work · HSK 1
上班
- 上 up
- 班 class
我每天坐地铁上班。 I take the subway to work every day.
More words with 上 or 班
How do you say be at work in Chinese?
Be at work in Chinese is 上班 (shàng bān).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.