上班 (shàng bān) means “to go to work; to be on duty; to start work; to go to the office”. It is an HSK 2 Chinese word in the HSK 3.0 vocabulary.
Practice each character:
我八点上班。
Wǒ bā diǎn shàngbān.
I start work at eight.
Updated: 2026-05-27