番

Stroke order

Example sentences

• 他把我从头到脚打量了一番。

  Tā bǎ wǒ cóng tóu dào jiǎo dǎ liang le yī fān

  He looked me over from head to foot.

• 他三番五次评判别人。

  Tā sān fān wǔ cì píng pàn bié ren

  He judges other people time and again.

• 今年销售会翻番。

  Jīn nián xiāo shòu huì fān fān

  Sales should double this year.

• 严格地讲，番茄是水果。

  Yán gé de jiǎng fān qié shì shuǐ guǒ

  Strictly speaking, the tomato is a fruit.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words containing 番

• 一番yì fān 4–1 Some
• 番fān 1foreign (non-Chinese); barbarian; classifier for occurrences (of an event, action or speech utterance); classifier for iterations: times, -fold (as in twofold etc); classifier for situations: kind, sort
• 番茄fān qié 1–2 tomato
• 翻番fān fān 1–1 to double; to increase by a certain number of times
• 三番五次sān fān wǔ cì 1–1–3–4over and over again (idiom)
• 番pān 1surname Pan