Surname · Chinese · Vietnamese · unknown
班
“to leave, depart, separate”
班 is a surname from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. It is used in Chinese.
Chinese and Vietnamese and unknownWritten in Chinese characters script.
Meaning & origin
What it means
班 goes back to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(b/p)ral, meaning “to leave, depart, separate.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(b/p)ral (“to leave, depart, separate”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
班’s family of names
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