闆 (baan2 | ban3) : boss

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闆

baan2

ban3

boss; proprietor; person in charge

Stroke count: 17

Level: 2

Radical: (#169)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

闆 / 板

This word has been viewed 2928 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 13th Jan 2012 04:15

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老闆娘 lou5 baan2 noeng4 lao3 ban3 niang2 = proprietress

老闆 lou5 baan2 lao3 ban3 = boss; manager; owner

做老闆 zou6 lou5 baan2 zuo4 lao3 ban3 = self-employed

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佢係個好老闆粵
He is a nice boss.

佢經常遲到﹐ 搞到老闆好唔高興。粵
He is always late, which makes his boss very upset.
[Cantonese grammar does not need a relative pronoun (which) to introduce a subordinate clause.]

近來傳出啲流言蜚語，話老闆畀人捉黃腳雞粵
Recently there has been all these slanderous tales about the boss being blackmailed for having some extra-marital affair.

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Decimal representation of this word: 闆
Unicode code for this character: U+95c6 (off-site link)

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