上班
shàng bān
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
To work a day's shift: to go to your job, or to be there working. 我九点上班 is 'I start work at nine' and 明天不上班 'I'm off tomorrow'. Its parts can split: 上了一天班 'worked all day'. The opposite is 下班.
Đi làm: đến chỗ làm, hoặc đang ở chỗ làm trong giờ làm việc. 我九点上班 là “tôi vào làm lúc chín giờ”, 明天不上班 là “mai tôi được nghỉ”. Hai phần có thể tách ra: 上了一天班 (làm cả ngày). Ngược lại là 下班.
VerbRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “上班” mean?
To work a day's shift: to go to your job, or to be there working. 我九点上班 is 'I start work at nine' and 明天不上班 'I'm off tomorrow'. Its parts can split: 上了一天班 'worked all day'. The opposite is 下班.
Is “上班” formal or informal?
上班 is generally neutral.