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翻番

fān fān

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

翻番 (fān fān) means "to double; to increase by a certain number of times". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 翻番 means

1. to double
2. to increase by a certain number of times

The characters in 翻番

• 翻fānto turn over; to flip over; to overturn
• 番fān(bound form) foreign (non-Chinese); barbarian; classifier for processes or actions that…

Example sentences

• 今年销售会翻番。
  Jīnnián xiāoshòu huì fānfān.
  Sales should double this year.

Sounds the same

Read fān fān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 番番time and time again

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read fān fān correctly.
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