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番

fān

HSK 6 Character

What 番 means

1. bound formforeign (non-Chinese); barbarian
2. classifier for processes or actions that take time and effort
3. (classifier) a kind; a sort
4. (classifier) (used after the verb {翻|fān} to indicate how many times a quantity doubles, as in {翻一番|fān yī fān} "to double")

Other readings

番 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• Pānsurname Pan

Example sentences

• 今年销售会翻番。
  Jīnnián xiāoshòu huì fānfān.
  Sales should double this year.
• 我不喜欢这番话。
  I don't like these remarks.
• 梅格买一罐番茄。
  Meg bought a can of tomatoes.
• 不是血，是番茄酱。
  Bù shì xuè, shì fānqiéjiàng.
  It's not blood - it's ketchup.
• 他在他的花园种番茄。
  Tā zài tā de huāyuán zhǒng fānqié.
  He grows tomatoes in his garden.
• 他三番五次评判别人。
  He judges other people time and again.

Words starting with 番

• 番茄fān qiétomato
• 番薯fān shǔ(dialect) sweet potato; yam
• 番茄酱fān qié jiàngketchup; tomato sauce
• 番刀fān dāotype of machete used by Taiwan aborigines, worn at the waist in an open-sided scabbard
• 番剧fān jùanime series
• 番客fān kè(old) foreigner; alien; (dialect) overseas Chinese
• 番瓜fān guā(dialect) pumpkin
• 番界fān jièterritory occupied by aborigines in Taiwan (old)
• 番番fān fāntime and time again
• 番菜fān cài(old) Western-style food; foreign food
• 番号fān hàonumber of military unit
• 番邦fān bāng(old) foreign land; alien nation
• 番麦fān mài(Taiwan) corn (from Taiwanese, Tai-lo pr. [huan-be̍h])
• 番木瓜fān mù guāpapaya
• 番红花fān hóng huāsaffron (Crocus sativus)
• 番茄汁fān qié zhītomato juice
• 番茄红素fān qié hóng sùLycopene
• 番椒fān jiāohot pepper; chili
• 番石榴fān shí liuguava (fruit)
• 番泻叶fān xiè yèsenna leaf (Folium sennae)
• 番鸭fān yāMuscovy duck
• 番荔枝fān lì zhīcustard apple; soursop (Annonaceae)
• 番禺区Pān yú QūPanyu, a district of Guangzhou City 广州市
• 番木鳖碱fān mù biē jiǎnstrychnine (C21H22N2O2)

Words containing 番

• 轮番lún fānin turn; one after another
• 三番五次sān fān wǔ cìover and over again (idiom)
• 翻番fān fānto double; to increase by a certain number of times
• 翻一番fān yī fānto increase by 100%; to double
• 更番gēng fānalternately; by turns
• 生番shēng fānbarbarian; aboriginal savage
• 里番lǐ fānerotic anime; pornographic animation…
• 连番lián fānrepeatedly
• 吐鲁番市Tǔ lǔ fān ShìTurpan, prefecture-level city in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region 新疆维吾尔自治区
• 西番雅书Xī fān yǎ shūBook of Zephaniah
• 丢番图方程Diū fān tú fāng chéng(math) Diophantine equation
• 吐鲁番盆地Tǔ lǔ fān Pén dìthe Turpan Depression in Xinjiang
• 西番莲xī fān liánpassion flower
• 真番郡Zhēn pān jùnZhenpan commandery (108 BC-c. 300 AD), one of four Han dynasty commanderies in north Korea
• 小番茄xiǎo fān qiécherry tomato
• 树番茄shù fān qiétamarillo
• 黑海番鸭hēi hǎi fān yā(bird species of China) black scoter (Melanitta americana)
• 樱桃番茄yīng táo fān qiécherry tomato
• 斑脸海番鸭bān liǎn hǎi fān yā(bird species of China) Stejneger's scoter (Melanitta stejnegeri)
• 三番两次sān fān liǎng cìrepeatedly (idiom)
• 大啖一番dà dàn yī fānto have a square meal
• 几次三番jǐ cì sān fānlit. twice then three times (idiom); fig. repeatedly; over and over again
• 吐鲁番Tǔ lǔ fānsee 吐鲁番市

Characters that look like 番

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 票piàoticket; ballot; banknote
• 鲁lǔ(bound form) crass; stupid; rude
• 兽shòubeast; animal; beastly
• 屡lǚtime and again; repeatedly; frequently
• 誊téngto transcribe; to copy out
• 豢huànto rear; to raise (animals)

Sounds the same

Read fān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 翻to turn over; to flip over; to overturn
• 帆sail; Taiwan pr. fán, except 帆布
• 藩fence; hedge; (literary) screen; barrier; vassal state
• 幡banner
• 籓big winnow basket
• 繙to translate
• 旛pennant
• 蕃variant of 番; foreign (non-Chinese)