下班
xià bān
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
To leave work at the end of the working day. 下班了 is 'work's over', and 下班以后 'after work'. Its parts can split: 下了班 'once work is over'. The opposite is 上班; for school the word is 下课.
Tan làm: hết giờ làm việc trong ngày và ra về. 下班了 là “tan làm rồi”, 下班以后 là “sau giờ làm”. Hai phần có thể tách ra: 下了班 (tan làm xong). Ngược lại là 上班; ở trường thì nói 下课.
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 “下班” mean?
To leave work at the end of the working day. 下班了 is 'work's over', and 下班以后 'after work'. Its parts can split: 下了班 'once work is over'. The opposite is 上班; for school the word is 下课.
Is “下班” formal or informal?
下班 is generally neutral.