Radical 王

10 strokes

king 王 (60a) + knife 刂 (74a) + king 王 (60a) = team 班

You will see that we have broken this character down into three parts, and so the equation and story have three components to them. We will only do this for a few characters where it seems “natural” to do so. When a character is made up of three parts aBC, it usually splits most naturally into a and BC, because the combination BC already means something. examples are 倒, 哪, 谢 (Characters 75, 99 and 108).

Note that the final stroke of the first “king” slopes upwards (compare 54a).

[上班 (42) shàng bān to go to work]

[下班 (43) xià bān leave/finish work]

At the inter-kingdom quiz, the two kings sit on either side of the beautiful jewelled knife that will be presented to the winning team. / For the final deciding question the teams have to identify a picture of the giant in a bandanna.