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番

fān

to take turns; a turn, a time; to repeat

Strokes
12
Radical
田
HSK
6
Tone
1

Other readings: fán

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.

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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